In the summer of 2010, then Governor Joe Manchin III ordered DEP to form a taskforce comprised of members of those groups to review West Virginia's oil and gas regulatory program.

Mr. President, it is time to take mining companies' safety records out of the darkness and bring some much-needed transparency and accountability to the industry. Today, I am introducing legislation that would require any publicly- traded…

Mr. Speaker, as we approach Memorial Day we still have no budget. And now it appears we will not even be offered a budget resolution for the first time since the adoption of the 1974 Congressional Budget Act. Across the country, people are…

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding me time. I understand that there is no controversy really on this underlying resolution. I wish we could have done this, and I think we could have done it several days earlier to get…

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman and gentlewoman for bringing this bill forth. I stand today in support of H.R. 2136, the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones College Fire Prevention Act. I had the pleasure of serving with…

I am particularly pleased that a number of my colleagues from this committee are co-sponsors of the ROADS SAFE Act.

Mark Pryor is the chairman of the Safety Committee. He's very, very active. And I don't move nearly quickly enough for his taste.

I've always believed that consumer information empowers people.

NHTSA is the mode where we have the largest loss of life--we have over 34,000 people that lost their lives in 2008.

I introduced the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 to address these problems.

Safety and responsibility are enormously important in every industry.

I was, frankly, amazed to hear some people, in the wake of what happened in the Gulf, say that this spill made passing energy independence legislation this year even more difficult.

We have to get serious about the management and oversight of our energy resources, overall.

I'm frustrated by the finger-pointing that appears to have dominated the public discourse over the disaster.

We pay an Iran tax for our current policy. Every day, $100 million goes to Iran today, even as we are poised to sanction them with respect to nuclear proliferation.

Profits before safety is just the way the world works.

The people who created this terrible mess must be fully responsible for cleaning it up.

Mr. President, I call up Senator Hutchison's and my amendment No. 3758 and ask for its immediate consideration. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment is pending. Does the Senator wish it to be the pending question?