Madam President, this week the Senate will consider the nomination of Samantha Power to serve as our next Ambassador to the United Nations. In fact, I hope we will take it up later today. This is a critical position to our President's…

I believe it is up to us to ensure that our vast supply of energy of all types, but, in particular for me, of renewable types, is a vital part of that equation.

address barriers to industry progress and pass Senator Moran's and Senator Coons's MLP Parity Act

The MLP Parity Act, co-sponsored by Senators Coons, Moran, Stabenow, and Murkowski, would open up MLPs to renewables and other kinds of energy projects.

I thank you and Senator Vitter both for putting this together.

It is an important hearing and it is on a very difficult day.

I think that you see that some of the SSOs are looking at transfer obligations.

As you know, Senator Coons, when you invest enormous amounts of dollars in R&D, you do not know where they are going to lead.

Madam President, President Barack Obama today is in the Midwest talking to folks about how important it is that Congress return its focus to our Nation's economic recovery. I couldn't agree more. Flustered by filibusters and paralyzed by…

Justice delayed is justice denied.

I wish we had an Inspector General confirmed by the Senate in place to do that in this Department.

You could not have two better advocates than Senator Landrieu and Senator Feinstein.

Knowing my colleagues and me, if I had somebody that wanted to create jobs in Delaware... I would probably be interested in seeing that succeed.

Mr. President, I think what I would like to do is try to set this discussion this afternoon in context if I can. One of the things I focus on a lot--I know the Presiding Officer does as well back in Delaware--is how do we create a…

find out what works and do more of that. This is something that works.

one of the things we focus on is how do we get better results for less money

One of our main objectives, really one of my main objectives in the Affordable Care Act, was to try to reorient our Nation's health care system so that we would reward quality over just quantity and try to improve health care outcomes…

we cannot manage what we cannot measure.