I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 31, 2011, at 2:15 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Committee on Energy and Natural…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 31, 2011, at 9:30 a.m., in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 31, 2011, at 10 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``APEC 2011: Breaking Down…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 31, 2011, at 2 p.m., to hold a hearing entitled ``Assessing the Situation in Libya.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I need to tell the American people and my colleagues who have not been following this important debate on a very good bill, I am so grateful to the Senator from Louisiana, Ms. Landrieu, for this bill. Unfortunately, there has been an…

Because I have a pressing event after, I wanted be sure. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland is recognized.

They say we ``strongly oppose Congress blocking EPA's effort to implement the Clean Air Act.'' That is one of the things they say in the letter. Then, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record--by the way, these are new…

The letter says ``Business Support for EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.'' It is a letter from Anne Kelly, who is director of this organization. She writes: We are writing as major U.S. businesses to urge you to oppose…

It says: For 40 years the EPA has protected our health and for 40 years the Clean Air Act has been reducing dozens of different pollutants--all while contributing to America's economic prosperity. Every single time we try to rein in…

I am very glad the Senator made that statement, and I appreciate it very much. When Gerry worked as an assistant district attorney, she formed a Special Victims Bureau. She investigated rape, child and women abuse, and abuse against the…

A part of what was in that bill was an authorization of a program I thought would be helpful to the private real estate market.

That is remarkable. I hold that up to the committee.

Well, that is right. I needed global warming that day.

She was magnificent. And that smile and her togetherness--at that moment in history, when not only was the whole country watching, the whole world was watching--it was an electric moment. I want to read what she said that night. She said…

Well, Mr. President, there was only one Gerry Ferraro, so I would go 5 minutes and turn it over to Senator Hutchison for as long as she would want. After graduation from college, Gerry got a job as a second grade teacher at a public school…

I always think we argue here over the word sustainability. We do not have to use that word.

Would you do that? That would be very helpful.

That is important going forward.

I would like to talk to Kerry and Hutchison and see if they would put in these types, because it is all a revolving fund process where loans are made and then they are paid back to the Infrastructure Bank.

I mean, first of all, you get the capital, people are hired, small businesses, private sector people, terrific stimulus, and then the payback is so good, and then the businesses have more funding in their pocket to reinvest in another…

When will you have the first accounting of the savings from some of the things you have been doing?

Do you know the cost of energy that the Federal Government from, the total cost? I saw it in one document and it was $24 billion a year.

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Because the President used a $24 billion number and that is huge.

Thank you for chairing the hearing and good luck on your next mission.