For many years, corporate polluters in the Midwest have been ducking and dodging around the Clean Air Act.

Rhode Islanders and Americans across our Nation acutely understand the benefits of becoming the world's leader in clean energy technology and the risks of failing in that endeavor.

everyone in America should have a stake in legislation that can transform our energy system into one that is far more efficient, far cleaner and provides energy independence for America.

The Zero Tolerance for Veteran Homelessness Act of 2009...has the potential to set this Nation on course to finally achieve victory in the campaign to end veteran homelessness in the United States.

This bill proposes to do more.

Our veterans have made great sacrifices to serve our country, and we have an obligation to honor our commitment to them.

It is one of our Nation's great tragedies that on any given night, an estimated 131,000 veterans are homeless.

That is a shame, to be blunt. We have to do more.

This legislation would address one of the most, I think, difficult problems that we recognize in the country when it comes to veterans.

I look at the credit card industry as having been behind the bankruptcy reform and that its primary purpose was to keep people harassed longer before they could get into bankruptcy.

The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would change that.

I believe the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act, introduced by Chairman Whitehouse, would help families like mine recover from medically-based financial hardship.

It would waive the means test and credit counseling requirements, which are unnecessary, time-consuming, costly, even humiliating for debtors forced to file by medical misfortune.

Families who think they are protected may be only one accident, one injury or one diagnosis away from family bankruptcy.

It is a terrific and unjustified government intrusion, I believe, at the behest of the credit card industry.

The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would give medical debtors across the country a fighting chance to save their homes.

But you have no choice. You still have to----

There is nobody you could go to and say, 'Listen, you do not understand.'