All children deserve to learn, and proven models exist today. That is why I will soon introduce the All Students Achieving Through Reform--ALL-STAR--Act.

Thank you so much for holding a hearing on such an important issue as charter schools.

some might call Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien the mother of charter schools in Colorado.

I just want to stress how important small business and community banks are to this recovery effort.

what ailed us most was the amount of leverage in our system.

The money that we are currently using as we move forward with the environmental analysis for these wind projects... will go into those kinds of analyses.

I think we need a whole new strategy with respect to how we deal with this mushrooming problem on our public lands.

The new energy frontier I think is here, and we are going to move forward in a very robust way to develop alternative energies.

The bond idea makes sense.

I will guarantee you, Senator Reed, that we are focused like a laser beam on the wind potential off of Rhode Island.

I remember concerns that you raised, which I believe are legitimate concerns relative to the aesthetic issues that you talked about with respect to wind.

The Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the elk issue is one I think which calls out for common sense solutions.

As we move forward with turning the new page and developing solar and wind and geothermal energy, that we have to do it in a way that is thoughtful.

We are very open, as part of the Obama energy comprehensive plan, to look at nuclear as being part of our energy program for the Nation.

Brian O'Neill was one of the heroes of our National Park System.

Those are numbers that came out of the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado.

We will do everything we can to empower the Nation's Native American communities.

We have to have that same kind of approach with respect to renewable energy projects.