Mary Landrieu

I look forward to seeing you down there again soon as we deal with other issues relating to the offshore.

I just had a comment very, very briefly to follow up with Senator Sessions'.

I think your approach to a more rational plan is something that I most certainly will support.

One of the things that Senator Alexander and others, Senator Landrieu were involved in was the creation of a permanent royalty for conservation.

President Obama and Members of Congress should be congratulated for including an additional $1 billion in the President's stimulus bill to enhance the Bureau's enumeration activities in 2010.

I think it is very important that Congress provides the Census Bureau with adequate resources to undertake the mammoth task of achieving a fair and accurate count.

It is essential that there is an ethnically and racially diverse workforce, from the staff in the district offices to the enumerators in the neighborhoods and barrios.

It is a critical part of making sure that we are allowed to make our contribution to the solution.

It's important for us to ask questions about how any standards we do set will ensure equity among the various regions.

But, in terms of what you're saying, the contribution of carbon--I mean, obviously, that doesn't exist with hydro.

We need to take steps to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

But, Mr. Furman, do you agree with Mr. Jones that, under the current law that we are reviewing right now, the current draft, that the biomass definition--or do you say, Mr. Jones, the wood products--is not as clear as it could be.

I have not seen the country more ready to embark in a new direction, but it has to be a direction that makes sense to them, with clear and defined goals.

As a Senator who's represented oil and gas, which is tough these days, I have to hear my colleagues say to me, 'We don't want an oil and gas facility anywhere near us.'

We are very excited about the nuclear--expansion of nuclear.

I've never really understood why existing hydro, in this debate, is not given more credit as a renewable energy source.

Our postal reform law was crafted with great care and with the assessment of enormous amounts of information and viewpoints from a wide variety of sources.

The GAO was disappointed with the Postal Service's responses and believes that the Postal Service has yet to make a case for urgent relief while charting a course forward to fiscal viability.

I have joined Senator Carper in supporting a 2-year reprieve from this requirement to help the Postal Service weather the current economic crisis.

I am here for two reasons this morning, and I will be brief. One is to reluctantly support my friend Ray Mabus for Secretary of the Navy, only under the condition that he be fair to the State of Louisiana in shipbuilding with our neighbor…

I think, in large measure, these lands, perhaps because they lie under great depths of water, are not recognized as part of this agency's responsibility.

Opportunities have been squandered for years, and it's time to get that fixed.

It truly, in some ways, is a dream come true, for some of us, to have a person of your caliber and integrity and pureness of heart to run an agency that--and Department--that is truly in need of extraordinary reform.

Can this committee count on you to go to bat in the atmosphere of these troubled financial markets?

I would just urge you to be careful about the comment about 4 percent.