I applaud you for your decision not to proceed to procurement of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) air and missile defense system.

I would like to raise an issue regarding lending to military personnel that has come to my attention and which I find very concerning.

This de facto moratorium is devastating lives, costing jobs, devastating companies.

I am very concerned about continued credit availability to military families.

The President appointed a 30-day review commission of expert scientists who gave him a report.

It is important that Federal agencies be headed by competent and capable people.

I can't overstate how devastating this has been to so many Louisianans and how frustrated Louisianans are with this pattern of actions by the Interior Department.

I think we all agree that sound science should be the top guiding factor.

Iran continues to maintain a rapid pace in its progress towards a nuclear weapons capability.

Filling those jobs is my absolute top priority. That has to come first.

One of the President's appointees to the oil spill commission is the executive director of the National Resources Defense Council.

The public cannot afford sloppy science.

Like Senator Lautenberg's home State, mine, Louisiana, owes a significant number and portion of very good-paying jobs to this industry.

I think the peer review process needs to ensure that the peers are absolutely independent.

if EPA ever decides to use any given study as a reason for limiting or terminating the use of certain chemicals, I think the results of that study, absolutely need to be repeatable and proven in supporting research.

I think a European registration, evaluation and authorization of chemical substances, a REACH-style program, would threaten to kill innovation in the United States.

The main priority I want to stress is the importance of basing everything on sound and rigorous science.

I rise today in strong support of the McConnell amendment No. 13 that would completely repeal President Obama's, in my view, unconstitutional health care bill. Of course, I was an active participant in the debate last Congress about…

if EPA is going to decide to utilize resources to re-review a chemical prior to the otherwise established scheduled review period, as it has recently, that needs to be, again, to come back to my central theme, based on sound science.

I would suggest, given that this is a big unfinished job, that the answer should be public and unequivocal.

I will be relatively brief.

I think these numbers, which are strong in dollar figures, in claimants paid, in many ways, do represent the easiest cases.

I am disappointed with your response.

I just wanted to stress a concern and urge you not to declare a victory quite yet.

I too am opposing the ratification of this New START treaty because I think it makes us less secure, not more secure, as a nation. Of course, that has to be the ultimate test. A toughly negotiated, balanced treaty with Russia which allowed…