The U.S. Government is scheduled to make $51 billion in profits off our students this year on their loans. This is obscene.

What I did is I pointed out that if the minimum wage had been linked to productivity starting back in the late 1960s, if we had just linked it to productivity, how much more each earner is working, our earners collectively are working, it…

In Massachusetts, the commercial fishing industry is responsible for over $2 billion in annual income and supports more than 73,000 jobs in the State.

Protecting Georges Bank from drilling is critical to ensuring that efforts to rebuild and manage New England groundfish stocks are not in vain.

House Republicans already turned their backs on coastal communities in the Commonwealth earlier this year...

Georges Bank is one of our Nation's most fragile and important marine ecosystems and a key economic driver for the region.

I think history probably is more compelling when it talks about making sure people have more money in their pockets.

I believe history has proven, back in the 1960s under President Kennedy, when he lowered taxes, that the economy took off and we had more revenues in this Federal Government.

When the former Secretary of Energy calls for $7 gasoline, you know that is a priority.

And many of the arguments they make are not relevant in today's abundance of natural resources.

I prefer to be energy secure next year. Not necessarily independent, but secure.

I certainly hope that the Congress can address sequestration before it goes into effect for another year.

Thank you very much. I think we all very much appreciate the great work that they do and that all of you do to make sure the Senate runs and to address the challenges that face the country.

Thank you all very much for your testimony. Again I apologize that we have to cut the hearing short today.

The State of New Hampshire has been pursuing a Job Corps Center for more than a decade and this effort has been plagued by countless unnecessary delays that have deprived our youth of a critical opportunity to receive valuable education…

Without additional funding for the Senate Information Services program... we will have to cut at least two services.

Keep going, President Obama, keep going, Obama administration, I like this program.

it is imperative that the agreement address currency manipulation.