Just very briefly, Madam Chair, in our part of the world, disputes in the West about taking water from a river used to be resolved with a gu...
Building Star would establish a rebate and a financing program to help make our existing commercial and multifamily buildings more energy ef...
These savings would go to business, tenants and hopefully families in multifamily structures.
The energy saved would equal 33, 300-megawatt power plants.
The type of impact we're talking about is, in parallel, 150,000 jobs on the residential side, 150,000 jobs on the commercial side.
Building Star energy efficiency measures would result in greenhouse gas reductions, as Senator Merkley pointed out, the equivalent of taking...
We estimate that it would create between 150,000 and 200,000 jobs.
So much can be done to be smart with energy, and being smart on energy is smart for our economy.
NASEO also strongly supports Senator Merkley's (along with Senators' Brown (OH), Cardin, Pryor, Sanders and Stabenow) Building STAR legislat...
We commend Senators Jeff Merkley, Mark Pryor, Debbie Stabenow, Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders, and Ben Cardin for their leadership in sponsor...
I think I can call that the Shelk spirit because that is exactly the way you have always done it, and we are very appreciative of it.
I want to express my appreciation to you for your extraordinary leadership and energy and just effort in bringing this highly diverse group ...
Job one must be saving our remaining mills and our loggers, what I call the infrastructure of forestry in central and eastern Oregon, while ...
I continue to have the only bipartisan health reform bill here in the U.S. Senate, and I am still trying to bring people together on that.
The walk in the woods, almost like a great foreign policy agreement, is how it began.
We do not have time to wait. If we wait, we lose the mills. We lose loggers. We lose all of the infrastructure in order to deal with the pro...
If, as Sen. Wyden's bill directs, there could be a tripling of volume sold from the Eastern Oregon National Forests...
I think it is fair to say that it is not the bill any of us would have written, but we believe it is a workable compromise that will improve...
