Dry cask storage. Spent nuclear fuel sitting in pools and in dry casks at nuclear power plants all over America.

We seek assurances from the senior military leadership that resources and actions are being directed effectively and urgently to address any factor which has been shown to place a servicemember, his or her military unit and family at risk…

I want to hear more about the facts relating to suicide and military operations, and make sure that we are directing our efforts in the right direction.

I hope that you will focus your attention on two important initiatives: science parks and broadband.

The EDA can and must play an important role in helping distressed communities in my home state of California and across the country.

When I left the Senate, it was not in there. So, when I wrote the language, there was no such language like that. I can't point a finger at someone who offered the change at all.

I believe that the $250 million in funds set aside in the Recovery Act for adoption of broadband should be a minimum and that actually, more than this amount should be spent to ensure that consumers can take advantage of this technology…

The alternative was losing, in my view, the entire section on executive excessive compensation. Given the choice -- this is not an uncommon occurrence here -- I agreed to a modification in the legislation, reluctantly.

I think that you understand--I know that you understand Main Street, and I know you understand the way the people of your State are thinking and the way the people of the Nation are thinking.

I see NOAA as a leader in providing the science and information needed for wise decisionmaking as this Nation faces significant challenges such as climate, energy and the health of our ocean and coastal resources.

The second option--which I will be proposing in forthcoming legislation--is to completely overhaul the inter-agency trade enforcement process.

I am delighted to have the support of my friend, the esteemed Chairman of this Committee in advancing the first of these options with the Snowe-Rockefeller 'Trade CLAIM Act'.

The department which you will be taking over, it surprises people, I think, sometimes to find out how huge the scope of it is.

We are going to be a larger part of the process in the future, working with you, always working with you.

It is owned by the Federal Government, so the Federal Government is the regulator.

I find that deeply troubling.

I mean, we wrote a law that gave them that job.

Those admissions should raise questions about whether we can ever create a risk regulator that will understand and act to stop systemwide risk.