We must recognize the toll of our transportation system on our environment.

I hope the Senate can fully fund many of the research and development initiatives proposed.

The quality of our surface transportation system directly impacts the quality of our economy.

We must ensure that it maintains our Nation's major highways, like interstates 10, 25 and 40, through New Mexico.

China's investing heavily in manufacturing and deploying wind, solar, and nuclear power plants.

The President's proposed an overall budget for the Federal Government that reflects his desire for fiscal restraint.

There can be no doubt about the seriousness of the competitive challenge that we face in energy.

Maintaining healthy ecosystems will help ensure that our water, air and food is also clean and healthy.

The work of the Fish and Wildlife Service will become more and more difficult.

I heartily recommend her, and I think the President should be complimented for an excellent choice.

It's much easier to go on offense. It's much harder to defend networks and assets in cyber.

I do look forward to working on the Committee with the Chairwoman and with the Vice Chairman on cyber security.

I am pleased to have joined today with our fellow committee member, Senator Isakson, as well as with Senator Kohl, to reintroduce the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act.

We need to ensure that she has the benefit of full information.

I wish all members would look at that. I think it's a very good proposal.

I introduced that in the last Congress. We're going to try to introduce it again, but we'd like to get some cosponsors.

What our bill does is to say we should do the same things with 401(k) plans.

I think it's a very good bill. I hope we can get it passed in this Congress.