The first thing a law enforcement officer should seek to do is to create a climate that reduces lawlessness, not encourage it.

I just have to tell you, people in this Government need to follow the law.

Do not come. It is unlawful to come. You cannot come to the country without lawful permission.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is one of the most critical positions in our Government, entrusted with overseeing our massive Federal budget during a time of great financial danger.

This deficit financial situation in America is nowhere close to being fixed.

There is so much pressure to spend, to spend, to spend, and simply the Nation has got to rise up to that and be responsible in the actions that we take.

I just think that is transparent. Now we are going to have a nearby city extort the power company for whatever ideas they may have that may not be in the public interest and result in much less likelihood, in my view, that we could have…

I really think, colleagues, that creating a situation in which States, cities and counties can now impose regulations on building of a nuclear power plant or the decommissioning of it in retrospect is bad policy. I strongly oppose that. I…

The nuclear industry, I have to say, represents a vital part of our energy mix.

I do believe it should never be forgotten that despite all the dangers and lives lost in other energy sources, we have never had an individual lost or killed as a result of a nuclear power generating accident, zero, and one have been made…

Mr. Ostendorff, they recommended the process you have adopted for pool storage, a majority of the Commission of four to one voted to adopt that process.

Congratulations, Chairman Macfarlane, you took over a difficult challenge.

According to the Energy Information Agency, the industry produces 20 percent of all our electricity and 60 percent of all carbon free electricity.

In a week when the President has unveiled regulations demanding a 30 percent reduction from 2005 levels of CO2 by 2030, we surely should be discussing the role that nuclear power can play in reaching those goals.

The continued work of the NRC to follow the D.C. Circuit Court's order in Aiken County regarding the licensing of Yucca Mountain is of vital importance.

President Obama has twice claimed that temperatures are rising faster than predicted, even over the last 10 years, he said.

The average median income for working Americans today is $2,400 below what it was in 2007.

Harvesting it and making it this wood and putting it in this building for a hundred years, has reduced carbon in the atmosphere.

When I came here, I felt a bit aggrieved.

We do not need to tolerate the President of the United States falsely asserting the status of climate in America.

All I am saying is, I don't know, maybe this is a temporary pause in some of the climate change that has been projected.

The time that we can intimidate people who present scientific papers that disagree with the current idea that is in fashion needs to be over.

Unemployment remains high, and we simply cannot regulate an imposed cost on American industry to the extent to which they cannot compete in the world market and damage our economy.

You are a national leader, and I am concerned about a few things.

I am not saying you should get that subsidy. I am just raising the point that somebody pays those subsidies.