Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I want to join the chairman in welcoming you, Dr. Elmendorf.

In a remarkable display of arrogance and disregard for the plain facts, the President last week proclaimed his support for expanded shale gas production...

As far as I can see, EPA never managed to get farther than the first step.

This illustrates the power of EPA's 'press release science' to drive public opinion and even critical decisions by policymakers.

Time and again we have demonstrated that this Agency is substituting outcome-driven science for rigorous objective science.

Like Senator Durbin, we have a nonpartisan process to try to get the very best on the Federal bench.

I join Senator Mikulski in my enthusiastic support for his confirmation.

I strongly encourage the Committee to report out his nomination. He has my strong support.

This is a family commitment.

Gabby, we love you. We have missed you.

I don't believe this hearing is about safety.

I believe you.

I am very pleased that you have been appointed.

I am hoping that maybe a tiny bit of the energy we have put into this hearing we will put into addressing the very things that the Occupy movement is all about.

It baffles me, it truly does, that we have now had over 118 hearings, 342 witnesses in this committee and when we ask for one of the bankers to come tell us why they were robo-signing, violating the law, we cannot get them.

One of Dodd-Frank's top priorities was to bring these businesses and products into the regulatory sunlight.

There comes a point where discretion ends and then you have to act, is that correct?

I would take it that a wooden structure would be a clear signal that you had to do something?