The public would be ill-served if politics impedes the confirmation of one of the Commission's most distinguished members...

We are also considering the nomination of Richard Howorth to serve on the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

It is not creating certainty in what prices are going to be, where they can invest and what they can do.

It seems to me the market has driven this.

We need to talk about future exploration.

If there is any area that I can tell you from energy companies that I talk to and I interact with in my district, it is the sense of uncertainty.

I can tell you in my State, for the energy companies in my State, they are struggling with EPA right now over 316(b).

GTMO is the single greatest repository of human intelligence in the war on terror.

We showed that 94,000, in just one region, was taken out, was intentionally miscalculated.

I believe in my heart, and after going there, that this would be the best solution.

The way this was done...was something that is very, very offensive, something that reverts back to the old colonial days.

I think we want to make sure that we don't all say that this is all this administration.

Mr. President, first, let me say I will be supporting the bill that we have before us today. It did not go far enough, though. What we ought to do is open everything. I am talking about the Pacific, the Atlantic, the gulf, the North Slope…

Mr. President, I would like to announce the reintroduction of a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the taxable income limit on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties. Since 1926…

Mr. President, I would like to bring to your attention a bill I am reintroducing that would make permanent the current tax provision that allows capital assets on Indian lands to be depreciated on an accelerated schedule. For many years…

I call for an independent investigation into all atrocities committed by all military forces involved in the fighting in Cote d'Ivoire.

I condemned the use of so-called peacekeeping forces, made up of the United Nations, and the French forces, which attacked the city of Abidjan.

I have personally talked to friends of Gbagbo, people who are on the Cabinet, and others, whose names I wouldn't use, because they would be summarily executed, and you know that as well as I do.