"As a matter of fact, Senator and Congresswoman Edwards, we were having some challenges and still have some challenges in Maryland, trying to modify this data."
"My biggest concern in this whole space since the crisis, including Dodd-Frank, including Fed action or inaction, is what I think is clearly the continuation of too big to fail."
"And I want to continue this same line of discussion because I strongly agree with it."
"Now, at the Federal level, I assume part of the problem in terms of delays and complications is you really have two different processes, FERC and DOE, and it's never exactly clear who goes first, how ..."
"In my opinion, we really need to even the playing field and right the balance at the high school level."
"one of the first things I wanted to do was bring the committee to Louisiana and bring it to the real world, not just in Washington."
"Federal programs--for instance, student loans, Pell Grant--those are really mostly designed for four-year colleges."
"Charles and I work really well together, particularly on this issue of energy jobs."
"we have four expert witnesses from here in Louisiana talking about energy jobs and everything those mean to our economy."
"$100 million. I know it's a big project. I know you're a big entity. But still, a tenth of a billion dollars for pieces of paper before you really started productive activity."
"I've actually heard of instances where a particular skills training program is artificially lengthened just because of the Federal requirement for students to be able to get that Pell Grant or other f..."