If the people of America have this kind of courage, this Congress should have this courage.

If we don't put these kinds of clear market signals in place in legislation we may not get this investment.

This bill is an opportunity to put the courage and the entrepreneurship of the American people up front and center.

I truly believe that we can bring more jobs and put America back in the driver's seat here by passing some forward thinking energy legislation.

We need an energy bill so that we send clear market signals that both short-term and long-term investment energy technologies will be rewarded.

Renewable energy--coming from our wind, sun, ground and bio products is by its nature going to involve jobs right here in our country.

This legislation is about putting America back in control of our energy supply.

Your leadership on this issue is well recognized, and I appreciate your working with me and my staff on this bill.

Some critical paths of this bill, which I support, will take years, like developing complex technology and building more nuclear plants.

This is about getting jobs right here in this country.

I think we can all agree that energy is one of the primary ingredients of infrastructure.

We are grateful to the Members of Congress who signed onto a letter circulated by Congressmen Tim Walz and Steve King.

I was on a bill a year ago with Senator Conrad to try to put a process, a bipartisan process together with suggestions on Social Security and other ways to bring down our deficit.

I have been working with Senator Warner, Mark Warner, on this.

It is very difficult for me to explain to the people in northern Minnesota... why their unemployment benefits would be cut off.

I don't want the 'mission accomplished' banner. We have so much more to do.

The fact of the matter is you are saying that if we go more to a French system or a Swiss system, that we will have increased bankruptcies, but the fact is they do not have bankruptcies and we do for medical care.

health insurance companies actually punish these women. This is simply amoral and unacceptable.