Chris Coons

There is broad interest here on ESPCs and scoring and how to make them apply.

Across a dozen projects that I was directly involved in managing, we prioritized those investments that had a payback timeline less than 10 years.

There are billions of dollars in identified savings in energy efficiency in Federal buildings, billions, that are not being achieved because of how it is scored.

I appreciate your graciousness and your leadership of this subcommittee.

If there has been a GAO study on the subject in the past, I would certainly welcome it.

It is much harder to explain to anyone why we are borrowing at a record clip simply to fund the ongoing operations of Government.

We typically look at a 10-year budget window.

I suspect you will find that one of the highest rate of return investments you can make will over the short run and the long run be investments in energy efficiency.

I come to the floor once again to talk about good jobs--about manufacturing jobs--and about what we can do together in this Chamber to strengthen the vital manufacturing sector of the American economy. Last year, Democratic Senator Sherrod…

Nobody believes that the goal of missions like MONUSCO is to stay in the country forever.

I appreciate the very detailed list of actions that you suggested for the committee and things that we might be doing as the United States as one of the key regional players, in particular, that we continue to support Senator Feingold in…

It is in my view a great gift that you and all of the other witnesses here today and our distinguished visitors bring to this issue.

I intend to work in the Appropriations Committee to support peacekeeping but also to provide support for Special Envoy Feingold, as well as for elections.

I look forward to staying in close contact with you and appreciate your real leadership in holding the best of America's values in terms of advocating for human rights and for civil liberties, for progress toward democracy, but also…

I believe it is better to follow your constitution than change it for somebody who is already in office.

It would be best for their future that the constitution be respected in this regard.

I want to specifically thank Cindy McCain for her passionate advocacy for bringing electoral and democratic reform to the DRC.

A strong and crippling sanctions regime imposed on Iran--in large part, passed by this Congress and enforced by this administration--have brought Iran, at last, to the negotiating table.

This is a regime we cannot trust.

We have a significant infrastructure deficit as well as an innovation deficit because we are underinvesting in R&D.

Thank you for your leadership of the Fed, and thank you for your testimony here today and for your service.

My understanding is Germany currently has roughly 70 comparable manufacturing hubs or institutes, so if we could move from 2 to 4 to something like 40, I think that would be a great objective long term.

I frankly also want to draw your attention to manufacturing, a sector I have focused on pretty heavily, that creates good jobs, high-quality jobs that have a great secondary benefit to the community.

The administration in this budget has placed a real focus on economic growth and on job creation, which I think is appropriate and should be our highest priority

That is something I hope we will move on a bipartisan basis.