Our shared support for infrastructure investment follows many years of bipartisan support for exactly the kind of investments we are talking about today.

We need to do that here.

I would urge you to use your good judgment.

This is someone who is very smart, and he gets it. But he also was willing to listen to all sides.

Your dedication to this, your willingness to work with all of us, I think it shines through.

We shouldn't be weakening our country's environmental defenses.

I just have to say that while no one agrees with everything in that budget--I certainly don't--the basis of the budget is critical, and this is the basis of the budget: The President is addressing the deficit in a very responsible…

I can think of no better person to fill this critical post at a time when our Nation continues to face threats to our national security.

I think it is particularly important in the arena of changing climate that we understand the implications and the effects of a changing climate system on fish and wildlife resources.

It is no great shock to know that we do disagree on the issue of climate change.

Will science lead you? Will you tell us what the science shows you?

I rise today to pay tribute to one of California's own, President Ronald Reagan. It has been nearly 7 years since President Reagan passed away, but he is still fondly remembered by so many in California, across this country and across the…

The American people do not want to be exposed to chemicals linked to cancer, leaning disabilities or infertility.

I want to focus a moment on the disease with which I have direct personal experience, cancer.

We are a country of laws, not people, no matter how strongly we feel.

I don't think that is the kind of answer that the American people expect when they are presented with a new contaminant that we know science is saying is probably more dangerous than we originally believed it to be.

Why should a person in California be safer from chromium VI than he is in any other State? It is not right.

We can't stop the science or telling the truth to the American people.

I have urged the Federal Government to address chromium VI.

The Bush administration never did set a drinking water standard for perchlorate, leaving millions of Americans in dozens of states at risk.

I think the group should welcome it, and I think there are some that do.

I believe that in the 1996 law, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the rewrite of the Water Act, what Congress wanted to happen was for the EPA to begin to move on these emerging contaminants.

Well, let's just set aside for a minute any kind of prejudices on who should act.

the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007--the act--calls for the Select Committee on Ethics of the United States Senate to issue an annual report not later than January 31 of each year providing information in certain…

The mission that you undertake every day, Administrator Jackson, is critically important to children and to families.