There were huge lawsuits. They settled the matter for hundreds of millions of dollars.

They want the water safe.

the bills introduced by Chairwoman Boxer last week would require EPA to set enforceable drinking water standards for perchlorate and chromium-6 no later than 1 year after the enactment of each measure.

But I do have to correct the record, because you quoted me as saying it is appropriate to ask about carbon pollution. What I said was that this is a hearing on safe drinking water.

Because greenhouses gases fit well within the Clean Air Act's definition of air pollutant, we hold that EPA has the statutory authority to regulate the emission of such gases.

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

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

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

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

Perchlorate is a toxic chemical contained in rocket fuel. It does not belong in our drinking water.

we need to know cost benefit.

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…

So we are looking at a major problem here.

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

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.

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.

I can tell you that the worst thing we can do for our economy and for everything else is to ignore these issues.

I have urged the Federal Government to address chromium VI.

It is our responsibility to protect the health and safety of our people, all of us. This is our job.

I rise today to introduce the Helping Responsible Homeowners Act of 2011. This legislation will eliminate barriers that have prevented millions of borrowers who continue to make their payments on time from taking advantage of historically…

The unemployment numbers in construction, as bad as they are, which is, depression numbers would have even been worse if we didn't have the stimulus.

We would be making a huge mistake if we put progress on pause.

Maybe there is a way that we could talk about jobs for our wounded warriors.

The verve will continue, yes, the bipartisan verve.

your words are music to my ears, because I am a big believer in working with the stakeholders.