Madam Chair, I rise to express my strong support for the Prevention and Public Health Fund and to ask my colleagues to reconsider the elimination of a program whose sole purpose is not only to improve the overall health of Americans, but…

I have noticed that in the President's budget, there is the proposed elimination of four existing CAP's.

As you know, the expansion of the Panama Canal expansion is due to be completed in 2014.

I appreciate that with respect to the 205 program.

68 percent of the beaches in New England and the mid-Atlantic... are eroding on an average of 1.6 feet a year.

I want to thank you, both Secretary Darcy and General Van Antwerp, for the extraordinary response of COE of Engineers to the floods last year in Rhode Island.

We will continue to fund those in this President's budget, but some of the others, like the small harbors money, are going to be cut.

I am watching carefully to see that.

The Victims Fund is victims' money, and that is where it should be going.

This is an exciting week for a Rhode Island company because on Friday in Shenandoah, Iowa, they will be opening a very significant bioprocess algae plant that is a, creates kind of a wonderful tableau.

I have heard the same thing that you have, that the reduction from $6 billion to $1 billion is an accounting adjustment and would not have immediate effects in the actual expenditures that are available to the victims of crime group in the…

If that money should go away or be reduced in any way, we would see further cuts in already damaged victim services.

there is no reason that they should be bearing the cost here.

I find it interesting that we think it is corrupting for a corporation to give me money which I then use to buy ads, but not corrupting for the same corporation to buy its own ads through Citizens United.

I would be happy to have it apply across the board.

You take Exxon-Mobil's last profits, and if I recall correctly, with five percent of their annual profits they could outspend both Presidential Candidate McCain and Presidential Candidate Obama.

Why isn't it helpful to simply know what is being used as the frack fluid so that you don't have to investigate where diesel is being used because the company would have reported it already since it is being injected into public land…

I wanted to ask Mr. Cloud and Mr. Neslin, when Deputy Administrator Perciasepe was here, he said that companies that used diesel in fracking and did not seek a permit under the Safe Drinking Water Act would be in violation of that Act.