It is clear that DOE and the Congress will have to make some joint, painful decisions and focus the limited resources that we have on the highest priorities.

I come from earthquake country, know what you have gone through constantly, and how hard it has been.

I rise to introduce, together with my colleague and friend Senator Kyl, the Emergency Judicial Relief Act of 2011. This bill would create a total of ten District judgeships in five courts across the country that are facing true emergency…

I am very pleased to see that the SunShot Initiative will include the photovoltaic manufacturing initiative.

I rise to speak in support of the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act, of which I am an original cosponsor, and in strong opposition of the Offshore Production and Safety Act. I support the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act because it would…

As you may know Lieutenant General Wyatt, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) currently only has access to 19 firefighting aircraft in addition to your 8 planes.

How effective can the National Guard be in fiscal year 2012 in eradicating marijuana on public lands without the kind of additive funding that was provided in fiscal year 2011?

I wish to thank Chairman Leahy for his leadership on this particular judgeship. I believe he is accurate in everything he said, and I very much appreciate his stalwart support. I rise to add my support to the nomination of U.S. Magistrate…

There were arms directly near the door. And my understanding is, he was right there and going to get those arms. So, you know, you really can't take a chance.

There were arms directly near the door and my understanding is, he was right there and going to get those arms. So, you know, you really can't take a chance.

We have got to clean up radiation. We have got to clean up mercury.

You could make that 2-year goal.

I think in a sense, they are an endangered species because they are probably the only one, Senator Alexander, that is going to get this kind of a raise.

So, what you are telling me is that the administration's design, or the Government's design, is that there are essentially 3,500.

I think the second major reason is we have, in my view, particularly as we look at the data, an increase in the recognition of how these laboratories contribute to a much broader range of national security and nuclear security work than…

Because what you have always led me to believe is that modernization is really for the protection of the workers...

I want my grandchildren and their children to grow up in a nuclear-free world. I am going to do everything I can to be helpful to get there.

I hope that I can support the chairman and that we can vigorously assist you in taking a fresh look at project management.

I am confident in NIF's ability to achieve ignition by fiscal year 2012.

I expressed some concern about the risk of insiders stealing or helping to steal nuclear materials.

I am not for new nuclear weapons. I will do everything I can to prevent the development of a new nuclear weapon.

Probably the area where we in the Senate have not done as well as we should have is in the area of oversight.

If you had these pits, how much would you reduce the stockpile by? I mean, this is important.

So, you have 2 more years.

There were arms directly near the door and my understanding is he was right there and going to get those arms. So, you know, you really can't take a chance.