Every ounce of an illegal drug interdicted at sea is an ounce that is kept off of our streets.

I have seen firsthand how addiction can blind young people to their hopes and dreams and possibilities.

I am hopeful that we can move legislation, and I hope that we get it right.

I believe in this President, and I know that as this situation changes from day to day, hour by hour, it is indeed a very difficult moving target but we will hit the target.

The key is to make sure that Americans come through this difficult time and come out whole at the end of it.

Today's Unemployment Report...is an urgent reminder of why decisive and urgent actions are needed to respond to our deepening recession.

While we may be in dismal times, this is America. And I think that we have to take the attitude that we will get through this, and we will.

Those who have lost their jobs face truly hard times.

My time has expired, but I think you have helped make the point I am trying to make, which is that there is all this alarm about how we would be tying our hands if we went back to the moratoria that were in place when in fact we could…

The OCS discussion is one that we have been having for the last couple of weeks.

Thank you for holding the hearing.

We need to somehow have more dialogue so there is not repetition.

As we move as a nation to reduce our reliance on foreign oil and our reliance on fossil fuels, we clearly need to make sure that the clean energy companies get the credit and the financing they need to move forward.

I think we are all still working on this third piece, on getting the credit flowing again.

We would like to look at expanding that to some debt financing as we go forward.

I'm the de facto leader of the Republican Party.

Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it's incendiary. Yes, it's ugly.

The impact is really devastating on communities like mine and across the State.