I'm especially proud of Colorado's land grant school--Colorado State University.

Thanks to the partnership between government and the land-grant system, the United States has the premier research enterprise in food and agricultural sciences.

I thank the Ranking Member for your leadership, and for you and the Chairman for holding this hearing.

In the end, we've got some hard decisions to make here, but I think if we approach this in the spirit of goodwill...

It is about job growth and wage growth in the United States and whether we can recouple those things together.

There are things that we can do in our Tax Code and our regulatory code and our statutes that actually would provide an ecosystem that would deliver on that promise again for the American people.

We need to. That is the fundamental work, in my view, why we were sent here.

Sound energy policy must take a holistic approach by considering the consumption and behaviors of office tenants and other building occupants.

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) is developing a bill that will take a market-driven, non-regulatory approach.

Senator Bennet is working on important legislation to encourage non-regulatory standards.

The synergy of 'Tenant Star' spaces within 'ENERGY STAR' buildings could transform--in a non-regulatory way--how commercial real estate owners and their tenants think about energy efficiency.