I would like to thank Chairman Harkin and Senator Enzi for convening this afternoon's hearing, to highlight how insights from behavioral economics can be applied to raise our Nation's retirement savings rate.

the polluter pays.

I think it is important to emphasize that probably every State around this Committee table has small businesses who are working on these kinds of things.

We have seen in New Mexico small businesses helping to solve drinking water problems.

It seems to me that since we're now negotiating with Iran to supply their medical isotope reactor with low enriched fuel, we ought to lead by example and phaseout the export of the weapons-grade uranium to produce these isotopes.

The blowout was not the product of decisions made by a rogue industry or government officials.

We cannot turn a blind eye on this issue.

It is in everyone's best interest, including industry, to not let this happen again.

The Deep Water Horizon tragedy has taught us that such development involves a highly complex interplay of technologies and human decisions.

Congress must take action, do our part to prevent the disasters like this from happening again.

that's not a good thing. That hurts our economy, hurts job creation and the like.

For their sake and for the national interest, the rest of us must not do that either.

This is America's problem.

if we had a lot of these protocols in place then we probably wouldn't have had to have a moratorium after this spill

The failure of companies who knowingly refused to implement the necessary safeguards to prevent this disaster, and it was a failure of governmental policies and regulators that did not apply the proper oversight.

This is not just Louisiana's problem. This is America's problem.

it's unfortunate in a sense that we didn't get our wide ranging energy bill out of the committee

The legislation Democrats introduced today creates a permanent scientific group.