The U.S. Army Corps estimates that every $1 billion in Federal investment in water resource projects creates approximately 26,000 jobs.

I want to thank you very much. It is good to be on a team with the Chamber.

I look forward to working with Senator Inhofe and all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to move forward with the WRDA bill this year.

I want to thank them for all the help they gave us, along with the Chamber and the unions and so many others, in moving our Highway Bill and getting it extended to the end of the year.

I am delighted to be here this morning. I am anxious to get started on voting on amendments so we can tackle the issue of Wall Street reform. We have to keep an eye on what happened to our economy, because Wall Street had no reasonable…

The reason I did this, frankly, was because the other side seemed to be misunderstanding what this bill did. So I was hopeful that they would just say: Terrific; now it is clear. No losses to taxpayers--``taxpayers shall bear no losses…

I would say the reason I think it is important to have a vote is because for days and days and days, my friend, the Senator from Connecticut, and my friend, the Senator from Virginia, were down on this floor defending this bill and making…

I thank Senator Dodd for all his work on so many issues. Just the way things worked out, he has been so pivotal in health care reform and now in Wall Street reform. This is an era of reform. My friend should be very proud that he happens…

I rise today with my colleague, Senator Feinstein, to introduce legislation to honor recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross--the oldest military aviation award created by Congress. This bill would designate the Distinguished Flying…

last August, California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Saylor, his wife, 13 year old daughter, and brother-in-law were killed in a tragic car accident that shocked the community of San Diego and the nation. Their vehicle, a rental Lexus…

I am very pleased they have backed down in terms of their objection because we want to get to this bill. Many of us have ways we feel it can be made stronger. I bet there will be some amendments to make it weaker. And that is what the…

I support the recent actions by both the Senate and House of Representatives to suspend the 2011 cost of living adjustment for Members of Congress. Although there has been encouraging news on some sectors of our economy, too many…

Madam President, April 22 is Earth Day. It has been 40 years since then-Senator Gaylord Nelson first advocated setting aside a national day to focus on our environment. We have learned a lot in those 40 years. What we have learned is, it…

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for holding this hearing--fittingly, on Earth Day--to discuss ocean acidification.

About one-third of the carbon dioxide we have emitted into the atmosphere has been drawn down into the ocean.

we teach our children that genocide, wherever it occurs, is a crime against humanity that must never be tolerated or ignored. That is why it is so important for the United States to always recognize genocide for what it is and acknowledge…

We have to act. And it's very fitting that, on this day, Earth Day, we're discussing ocean acidification.

Unfortunately, as reported by the National Research Council today, adding so much carbon dioxide to the ocean has caused its pH to decrease by a tenth of a unit since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Senator Barbara Boxer has requested a hearing on Senate Bill 1596.

Your efforts are critical to this important site and will mean so much to Japanese-Americans, as well as Japanese culture worldwide.

Further, my understanding is, if an institution gets in trouble, they are going to go down. They are not going to be revived.

I think the American people have appreciated the FDIC over the years, because the FDIC was another way for taxpayers to be kept out of a problem, because it is an insurance fund. The banks are taxed and they put the money into the fund…

First, I want to say thank you so much for taking to the floor to explain to the American people the very strange debate we hear coming from the Republican leader on this. I was stunned, because I had heard that he had met with the Wall…

I supported the motions to table the three Coburn amendments to the Continuing Extension Act of 2010. These amendments would delay important legislation to provide a short term extension of unemployment and health care benefits to…

So this whole notion has worked very well. But in closing, because I do not want to interrupt the speech of my friend, because I think it is important, it seems to me suddenly there has been a huge injection of politics into a bill that…