We need this freeze on overall domestic discretionary spending.

Our legislation is more measured.

As a member from a coastal State, I understand well the importance of our shorelines to our local and national economies.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My thanks to both you and Senator Boxer for holding the hearing.

One of the lessons that I have learned as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, where I oversee the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is the importance of effective regulatory oversight to ensure that we avoid future…

And so we must work to make sure that the laws and regulations that we have in place protect these critical industries from harm in a fair and real way.

As I have mentioned before, our hearts go out to the folks impacted by this terrible accident--to the families of the 11 workers that died and those that were injured.

Without dreams, there is no reason to work. Without work, there is no reason to dream.

The importance of data sharing in the government. We are one government, but we are thousands of stovepipes.

I understand that the Inspector General noted that we could easily avoid billions in overpayments with a fairly small increase in oversight investment.

So when people ask me saying, what happened to all this oil, this huge amount of oil that came out of the bottom of the Gulf, and now it seems to be going away, some of it has evaporated?