Are we going to learn anything from the BP disaster? Is this Committee going to do anything to prevent such an accident from happening again?

These companies aren't creating new jobs even as production is increasing, and they are making those record profits.

The Obama Administration admits their actions are making us more reliant on foreign countries.

Markey, Hon. Edward, a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts.

I think those suggestions or recommendations are excellent as a starting point, and certainly we may want to consider going beyond them based on what we've heard and what we may find out.

I have strongly opposed any measures to cut Social Security.

Should OMB reexamine the risk premium?

Right now, a few dozen brave souls are fighting a nuclear meltdown with water trucks. We send our prayers to those heroes and to the people of Japan.

We, too, need a seismic shift in our approach to nuclear reactor safety. I fear that we are not moving fast enough to take these important steps.

We don't need to study these pills to know that they can prevent cancer. I believe that the Obama administration should immediately implement my law from 7 years ago.

They are just like a toxic asset, literally and financially guaranteed by the federal taxpayers if something goes wrong.

I think the American taxpayer really has to be protected here going forward.

One of them is banker-in-chief to the nuclear industry, a socialist system that allows for the U.S. Government to provide taxpayer-backed loan guarantees for nuclear power plant construction in our country.

Are you going to reexamine it in light of what happened in Japan?

Don't you think that we should hold off on licensing new reactors on new reactor designs or approving new loan guarantees until we assure that these new reactors are safe and we have learned the lessons of Fukushima?

I authored legislation in 2002 that required the distribution of a potassium iodide to residents living within a 20-mile radius of nuclear power plants.

The Bush guideline was that for 10 to 20 miles, people should just start running or ducking under their bed.

I would just hope that maximum credible earthquake would be reexamined after what has happened in Chile, New Zealand, and Japan.