Joe Lieberman

I know that he shares my strong support of this legislation and its goal of allowing the town of Canton, Connecticut to operate two hydroelectric dams on the Farmington River.

I, along with my colleague Senator Blumenthal, reintroduced legislation that would expedite the remaining regulatory process.

I am grateful for the opportunity to provide a statement in support of this important legislation.

General Petraeus is someone whose very name inspires the trust and confidence of America's friends and the fear and anxiety of America's enemies.

General Petraeus' background and accomplishments would make him a superb candidate for any of the top national security positions in the United States government.

Dave Petraeus' life and leadership have been a reminder that America is still a land of heroes.

General Petraeus has won the confidence, gratitude and respect of the American people--Democrats, Republicans and, yes, independents.

He is a true American hero who has twice been called upon by our commander-in-chief to assume leadership of a faltering war effort.

Well, whatever General Petraeus says, that's the direction in which we ought to go.

I look forward to these hearings every session, and I do because they are so constructive.

Since I founded the Senate Diabetes Caucus, funding for diabetes research has more than tripled and now it approaches more than $1 billion this year.

We are making progress in the battle against diabetes, but this is no time to take our foot off the accelerator.

We can sit back and continue to pay the bills and endure the suffering, or we can aggressively pursue a national strategy aimed at curing this disease.

We cannot support this proposal in its current form.

Ending homelessness is not only the right thing to do, but also the fiscally responsible thing to do.

Title V is one of the important Federal programs that can help us do that.

This is not the time to take away an important Federal program to help homeless people.

I hope we can do the same for Chris Droney when he comes before the Senate.

But really, we are all accountable to the taxpayers, to say the obvious, and it is going to take a couple of big things, but a lot of small things...

Yes. I am going to look at that and maybe one of the other things we want to do here is to circulate the report, pull the report apart and circulate parts of it to the relevant committees, the subject matter.

I do not want to take really any more time on it, but one part is, if the debt ceiling is not increased, which I think most people think it ultimately will be--what kind of budget will we have based on projected revenues for next year?

Thanks, Senator Collins. I agree with you.

But it has to come from OMB.

I am convinced that if we could eliminate redundancy, duplication, and overlap, that we can literally save billions of dollars.

In other words, those are efficiencies, elimination of waste, duplication. So I appreciate that.