It is a very important subject, and I appreciate the Committee's consideration of it.
I really appreciate your indulgence. I had intended to be here a little bit earlier so I would not be as disruptive.
So if I understand your answer to Senator Udall's question, Mr. Wellinghoff, there are occasions where eminent domain is appropriate after a...
So we really have not seen the expansion of facilities that we would have liked to have seen?
At the end of the last Congress, Sen. Barrasso and I introduced legislation to begin to reform the Minerals Management Service.
I guarantee you I would never have said anything like that about former Governor and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt.
My question is do you believe that nuclear power is renewable energy? My time is expiring.
I find it highly offensive but you're certainly entitled to your views.
You agree with that goal?
He said that the people here still believe that the future is ours to shape.
I am pleased that President Obama is practicing 'truth in budgeting,' particularly when it comes to the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghan...
This gives voice to Saint Augustine's lament: Give me sobriety, but not yet.
Interoperability in our district is a huge problem, and I am a former prosecutor so I have been in talking with law enforcement agencies.
Our ability to get our country back on track relies on our ability to change the way our country generates and uses energy.
We must make a commitment to restore science and innovation as the keys to a new American Economy.
If our goal is a stronger, better economy--education is how we get there.
The need for their services has only grown.
They not only need the health care they are entitled to, but we need to provide them with access to higher education and job training.
