Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers asks the following question: ... Tell me how many people making the $30,000 you give in your example do you believe will volunteer to have contributions taken out of their paychecks even if the government…

The simple fact is that portfolio turnover has risen dramatically.

I think what we will do is follow up with some specific questions on that then.

Do you agree that we need to solve this problem?

How do you intend to make sure that agencies like NOAA have adequate say in our Government's policy choices, especially as it relates to offshore drilling?

I would hope your tenure time would be more than a few years.

Let us try the southern resident orca population.

I think it is a model that is eminently worthy of supporting and of emulating.

For the Northwest, with 72 percent hydro and on the way for other renewables, yes, those are easier challenges to meet.

Should we be looking at meeting the RES standard with further incentives from the government?

We tried very hard, here in the United States Senate, to have our language on 'sustainable woody biomass' prevail in the 2007 bill.

I guess I look at this issue a little differently, considering the excitement around distributed generation.

I think we have to include all the costs.

We cannot continue to have natural gas go up to $14 on whatever it was, and think that we're going to survive.

I urge my colleagues to swiftly confirm him for the next Director of National Drug Control Policy.

I am honored to present Gil Kerlikowske as the nominee for Director of National Drug Control Policy.

To fight drugs, we must break down the walls between prevention, treatment, and enforcement.

I want to thank the Chief and his family for accepting this responsibility at, really, this important time in our Nation's history.