Now with the new administration and a new President, we have the opportunity to develop a budget that is both honest in our assessment of the country's finances and adequately reflects the need of our great country.

The LIHEAP program is one of the most crucial support structures for millions of families throughout the country.

We can't achieve wellness and reduce the escalation of the cost of health care for everyone or stop the drain on the health care system across our communities by disparities and uninsurance without addressing the defects of deficiencies in…

A $6,500 cap is a challenge for many of those homes.

The $5 billion that was included in the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act for weatherization, I think is a very important investment.

The budget as it is proposed essentially nationalizes all income over $250,000, nationalizes health care, nationalizes student loans.

I think there are questions out there that have been raised by the budget that has been presented to us by the administration relative to the ability to build on that confidence.

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

we have to look at the impact across the country.

I do not think there are too many people in New Hampshire who do not believe we are experiencing climate change.

if we don't do anything, then we have millions of people who will fall through the safety net.

Where's the restraint in spending? This budget doubles the debt of the federal government in five years, triples the debt of the federal government in 10 years, runs up obviously massive deficits over this period.

For me, I just realized as these issues started to come at us and they started to crystallize that it really wasn't a good fit. And I wouldn't be comfortable doing this and it wouldn't be fair to him to be part of a team and not be able to…

the Chairman's fairness is renowned throughout the Senate.

I realize that to withdraw at this point is really unfair in many ways, but to go forward and take this position and then find myself sitting there and not being able to do the job the way it should be done on behalf of the President 100…

I want to express my great appreciation to Senator Reid in the way he has run the Senate so far in this session.

I think that a renewable portfolio standard could be essential to doing that.

Now, one of the reasons that we require competitive suppliers to do it is because, when I was Governor, New Hampshire restructured its electric industry to make generation of power a competitive function.