You're making refunds, or at least you're giving your customers credit.

Wouldn't it have been a better practice either to have a backup or at least to have a plan?

there is an obligation. It certainly is an ethical, in my view, obligation, if not a legal obligation, for Con Ed to make whole, to compensate, to reimburse Metro-North and others who suffered as a result of Con Ed's failure of equipment.

I strongly share the view, that our nation needs to make additional investments in infrastructure.

Do you agree, Commissioner?

It was your responsibility to maintain and make sure that line served the substation owned by Metro-North.

Now, increasingly, our economic vibrancy depends on people being able to access Fairfield County from New York by rail.

These Starwood employees are writing to their Senators and Members of Congress because they see firsthand the effects on their livelihood and their lives. The stories recounted earlier by my colleague from Connecticut and those I recited…

I am very pleased to follow my colleague from Connecticut in recounting to this body some of the voices we have been hearing from across our State, some of the individuals whose stories make very compelling evidence for the need of this…

I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on October 15, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

let me add my voice to the eloquent and powerful remarks made by our majority leader and the Senator from New York, who have rightly deemed this House proposal an obstacle-- indeed, an obstructionist move--designed to perpetuate and not…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on October 15, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. room 428A Russell Senate Office building to conduct a hearing…

I thank my colleague from Oregon for speaking so forcefully and ably about the real-life stories in his State--stories of people affected very directly by the shutdown and the prospect of the greatest Nation in the history of the world…

The government, the government, I hate it. And now piece by piece, like the kreplach, we're showing them what the government does.

the agency that's responsible for overseeing the safety of those kind of devices or equipment that hurt children is the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is known colloquially as the CSPC.

No one is inspecting toys being imported from China that may contain dangerous levels of lead or other life-threatening defects.

No cop is on the beat investigating reports of actual deaths caused by consumer products.

They are nihilists and anarchists. They want to shut down government.

How many people are being ripped off all across our country and all across our planet right now?

Of course we do. We're hearing it now, but we've also been hearing it literally day after day, hour after hour, from our constituents.

Fortunately, I think they have been shown to be wrong in their opinion that government is worthless, that it does no good.

More people are killed in highway accidents every day than by tobacco or anything else.

I want to join in thanking the Chairman for having this hearing.

yesterday the Veterans Affairs Administration announced it would furlough 7,000 Veterans Benefits Administration employees, and as a result activities and services in the following areas would be suspended: The education call center…

In fact, what is happening is a small fraction of one House of the Congress--in fact, in the House of Representatives, one small group of rightwing extremists, whatever they may characterize themselves as--is holding hostage the entire…