I wish to express my support for the Defend Trade Secrets Act and to explain some of the changes that were made in the Judiciary Committee to ensure the bill does not adversely impact California. First, let me congratulate Senators Hatch…

I wish to express my strong support for the resolution to enforce the subpoena against backpage's CEO Carl Ferrer. From my work as chairman and now ranking member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, I know how important congressional…

today I wish to express my opposition to the legislation introduced by Senator Roberts to preempt State labeling laws for genetically modified organisms, also known as GMOs. The Mellman Group released a poll last year that found that 89…

I don't want North Korea with a 6-kiloton nuclear cruise missile.

I came away unconvinced of the need for this weapon. The so-called improvements to this weapon seem to be designed candidly to make it more usable, to help us fight and win a limited nuclear war. I find that a shocking concept.

Well, let me--what are your estimates? How--the $3.2 billion in deferred maintenance, did you have specific plans for meeting that, or are you just going to ignore it?

I think there is a very definite morality in what we have.

I think just based on the aging and the changing nature of the threat, we need to replace a system.

I'm one that is on the other side of this question.

I think that is extraordinarily important.

I am a big believer in desal. I would like to see it go ahead.

I think it is becoming very clear that unless we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, we are going to see catastrophic sea level rise, devastating droughts, more wildfires, more habitat loss, greater ranges of exposures for disease, and…

I guess I am beginning to feel inordinate frustration because... it sits and sits and sits.

Well, I was here when Pete Domenici was on the committee and opposed this. We voted for it. And here we are 10 years-plus later, and it is not there.

I believe Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution, but we have more used fuel than Yucca Mountain's legal capacity.

If there is going to be a future, a real future for nuclear, there has to be a place to put the waste.

I think we ought to take a real look at those subsidies that have existed for more than 20 years.

If we continue to do so, the costs are huge. I mean, I am really a doubting Thomasina there.

If it is not going to reach its goal, which I understand it may never be able to produce fusion.

I am sure not going to vote for it until I know what it is going to do, because I know what the need is for the third-stage membrane.

The Government continues to fail in this.

I think it just puts more and more people in jeopardy of one day an accident.

if you can do it, why not go ahead and do it?

I rise to speak for the second time about the Supreme Court vacancy, and I do so not callously, not spontaneously but after 23 years of service on the committee. I like to believe I have some experience and some knowledge about how these…

When do you expect to transition these monitoring programs from pilots to large scale implementation?