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Americans are very uneasy about a plan being enacted via executive fiat and with what seems to be a total disregard for the costs associated with it.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy conservatively estimates that these shutdowns will cause the loss of 17,000 jobs.

Given EPA's recent new source performance standard proposal, which hinges upon unproven carbon capture and sequestration technology, Americans can only expect even higher energy prices and greater job losses.

If this situation on the ground in Iraq does not improve significantly, when do they become a threat to the United States?

None of the funds available to DOD shall be used to conduct any environmental impact analysis related to Minuteman III silos that contain a missile as of the date of the enactment of this act.

I lived through the 'hollow force' of the late 1970s, and have no desire to do so again.

Full sequestration level funding generates unacceptable levels of risk to our national security.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you holding this hearing today.

We always, in our enforcement, focus on uses of data that have the potential to harm consumers.

I think it is very, very important for our environment and our economy that these move forward quickly.

Are you aware that from 2008 to 2012, the U.S. natural gas production increased by 11 percent overall as it fell 13 percent on Federal lands?

I am so very fortunate to have Senator Johanns as the senior Senator from Nebraska. He has a wealth of experience as a former Governor, as a former Secretary of Agriculture, and as a U.S. Senator. So he has definitely been a mentor to me…

I rise to discuss the nomination of Elizabeth Wolford to be U.S. district judge for the District of New York. I am new here. I am just completing my first year in the Senate. But I believe this nomination gives us all an opportunity to…

I think it is legislative malpractice to not recognize that there has been--well, now we know, some holes in those procedures.

I think we can universally agree that there was a breach in confidence because you couldn't trust the NRC at one point in time.

I think this is a misguided and dangerous policy.

I believe that we should concentrate our efforts on solving problems that truly require a legislative solution.

I am skeptical--skeptical, Mr. Cole, that such a diversion would be beneficial given the other important matters before this Commission.