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I would particularly like to compliment Chairman Bishop for recognizing the potential of what we are here to present today to improve the public forests and range lands, while also sequestering vast amounts of atmospheric carbon.

We are learning that scientifically managed grazing can increase soil carbon sequestration, and lock it away for long periods.

Section 203 takes us back to the day before AIG melted down. We are moving backwards in time and not forward with strengthening our economy. With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

Those bipartisan groups who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We, on a bipartisan basis, didn't regulate these derivatives, and we will, unfortunately, learn our lesson. I yield such time as she may consume to the…

Satellite is not a particularly good technology so far; at least the physics of it do not seem to really work very well

My sense of due process is such that I feel the need to give you the chance to respond to Mr. Lieberman's statement

The importance of broadband appears to be on the increase, you know, as consumers are increasingly relying on that medium

By ensuring that we protect competition and not any individual company or competitor, we can help create market conditions that benefit consumers and promote economic development.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

This broadband, this is with existing bandwidth you have already got, this does not require an additional acquisition of bandwidth?

And really quickly on that, what is your response to Mr. Wood's point about the fact that if you synthesize the synthetic agreements better, you could achieve the same thing without the merger?

Today's hearing, of course, involves AT&T's recent announcement of its intention to acquire DIRECTV.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank both of you for your leadership in this area. You two are the best Senators I've served with, and this is a very important committee.

I still remember both of us breaking down and crying as we walked off the floor on the Americans with Disabilities Act and saw all of those people in wheelchairs and on crutches and so forth who were just thrilled that we were able to get…

Energy development has not occurred at the same pace in recent years on federal land, particularly onshore development has not occurred at the same pace.

So this hurts the poor more than anyone else.

The Federal Government owns about 30 percent of the land mass in the United States, and about two-thirds of the land in my own state.

Today's hearing has a narrow, but very important focus: the role of education incentives in our tax code.