Thank you, Mr. Bolden, as you know, a lot of our concerns are about the capability of the commercial sector to do what we are asking them to do on time, on budget, and putting, essentially, all our eggs in one basket.

It is a very important hearing.

I urge all my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, to do the same. Particularly since the financial crisis, the American people have been demanding several things. One of them clearly has been openness and transparency about U.S…

I support the Sanders amendment. I will vote for it. It is a very important and useful look in the rearview mirror, if you will, a one-time audit of significant Federal Reserve activity, particularly in 2008 and 2009. I welcome that. That…

it is an order of magnitude difference.

between the task of stopping the flow and cleaning up the oil, there is a critical challenge that I am very focused on with folks in Louisiana

Clearly, we need to learn an enormous amount from these events, and significant changes will have to be made to Federal law and policy and procedure in light of that.

I think is a mistake, and I think by definition is pulling some amount of focus and resources away from that ongoing disaster.

Another big concern, Mr. McKay, as you can imagine, is using as much local labor and assets in the response as possible because these are the people hurting from the spill.

The problem is in practice we are seeing a lot of cases where it is not happening.

This incident is clearly a major human disaster, and again, I repeat, my heart and prayers go out with all of ours to the families directly involved starting with the 11 deceased or missing, all their families. And it is a major…

I'm very concerned about the impact of the shipbuilding budget on the shipbuilding industrial base, and in particular, the effect on the Avondale shipyard in Louisiana.

representing Louisiana in the Senate, along with my colleague, Senator Landrieu, you can image I have been focused exclusively on the ongoing oilspill, the leak, the ongoing flow that we and the country are battling. Because it has been…

I rise to strongly agree with Chairman Levin that what we have heard in many of these hearings regarding Goldman Sachs' activity and others is extremely disturbing-- outrageous--and I don't support that activity in any way, shape, or form…

One of my top concerns is the critical outfall canals in New Orleans. It was the breaches in those canals that led to 80 percent of the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans. It was those breaches that were caused by design flaws of the…

just to close, I have said thank you many times, certainly to the American people, to these bodies in Washington representing the American people. The Senator is certainly right about that generosity and about a lot of the work of the…

Michael Walsh is one of the top nine officers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is part of the key leadership. Senator Dorgan is a fierce, active, vocal defender of that bureaucracy, but before he continues and plunges into that…

I am disappointed. I am disappointed. I am disappointed my distinguished colleague is continuing to simply blindly, in my opinion, be a fierce defender of a bureaucracy which is truly broken. Not a pawn in anything, a member of the…

Among these you specifically mention the need to maintain a safe, effective stockpile, which I take to mean, not just the nuclear warheads but the missiles as well.

the President's plans for NASA present a direct challenge to and potentially jeopardize the viability of our Nation's nuclear deterrent, specifically to our ICBM fleet?

I join my colleagues in urging the Senate to come together--Republicans and Democrats--around a strong bipartisan approach to financial regulatory reform. We need to address the critical causes behind the financial crisis of the last…

I am absolutely not satisfied with their leadership and how that agency is being run at all. Since Hurricane Katrina, there were 14 major report deadlines put on the Corps of Engineers, required of the corps. The corps missed all 14 of…

I will be happy to do that in a version that is paid for, incorporating the very sensible, commonsense objections that have been offered to pay for all of this extension.

I stand in strong support of the comments of my distinguished colleague from Alabama. Of course I agree with virtually every single Member of the Senate that these programs need to be extended. But I also agree with many Members here, and…

Sort of like the ``Louisiana purchase'' with health care reform. Let's put one sweetener in the bill to pass something really bad--a $108 billion debt increase over a year. Let's take one hostage, including folks who are held hostage who…