Ed Perlmutter

I see what you all do and your research and your service to be investments in the future, and that will pay for a long time to come.

I've served on a lot of committees in the Congress, and this Committee is by far the most exciting, stimulating, energizing committee in the Congress.

That train has left the station.

I have been waiting for 4 years for the SEC to address this and they haven't.

We've got thousands of mines in Colorado, many abandoned, many properly closed with all sorts of issues, and at some point we've got to address them.

This is a responsibility that we have as a Nation.

The witness has rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.

We want to have mostly successes.

The most recent encyclical says let's do everything we can to reduce pollution going into the atmosphere to avoid any further climate change.

I want to thank you and I want to thank the President for putting this economy back on track.

We see pensions at an all-time high.

I want to thank you for rebuilding the markets from the recession that we were in at the end of George Bush.

I would like to talk about some of the sustainability, energy-saving measures that the Department has undertaken with local governments, with local public housing authorities.

I thank the gentleman. I look forward to staying on top of this so that as they move forward we have sufficient funding to really propel this project forward and get our astronauts to Mars.

And so we need to be exporting more, not less, and that is what the Ex-Im Bank does.

Ex-Im has committed over $11 billion in total export value.

Clearly, from my experience, I understand--and I don't understand why, especially my friends and colleagues who are supporters of trade, this seems like a no-brainer.

The National Flood Insurance Program iceberg is melting.

Floods are the number one disaster in this country.

The National Flood Insurance Program needs to be reformed.

Their government let them down. Their insurance company let them down.

That is the highest number of jobs unfilled and the lowest number of unemployed people since Bill Clinton was President.

So today, I came across something in Bloomberg News that as of today, there were 262,000 new jobless claims.

I don't understand why they hate those companies. That makes no sense to me.

We should applaud employee ownership from the shop floor to the boardroom.