I'm proud to have asked for it, I'm proud to have fought for it and I will continue to.

I particularly like the term 'stewardship,' and I believe that stewardship actually begins with presenting facts in a way that tell the truth about what's really happening in offshore and onshore oil and gas.

I think it's important for us to really examine the facts and to try to seek the truth, relative to the benefits and the risk associated with energy production.

I am compelled to voice my growing concern over this administration's approach to OCS.

Senator Dorgan's proposal for line-of-sight restrictions and a 25-mile buffer zone is really just one of the many pending limitations.

I'm proud of the bill that Senator Landrieu and I introduced.

The spill that occurred in my State, in St. Bernard Parish, that went--the oil went into 1700 homes...

The fact is, these things happen.

I do have a followup.

Let us agree that there are risks associated, but it has already been determined...

Senator Mary Landrieu... is very skeptical of the public option.

I guess, as Senator Cantwell said, the sweet spot is a wide variety of choices of clean fuels, with competition in the marketplace.

Our objective is to clean the environment and to do it in a very cost-effective manner.

I know my time is expired, but it's a real problem, Mr. Chairman, in the current framework of Waxman-Markey...

I think the American people have a right to benefit from resources that they own.

Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is calling for his dismissal.

I wish he had spent more time on the ground.

I don't think people were angry with him; that mostly I thought they were frustrated.

I would argue that one of our goals should be--I mean, not just cleaning the environment, but stabilizing these prices in a way that allow industries to make smart decisions.

the impact to the domestic refining industry will be contracted so that we will not be refining our own product, we'll be refining our products offshore and importing them.

it's very important--because another focus that I'm going to have is not just cleaner environment, but more economic security and national security.

Does the House bill help us to reduce volatility in this price, or will it contribute to the volatility of this price?

I would love to talk with Senator Snowe about it--and also the particular business of daycare--because it supports and undergirds small business everywhere.

I want to say I think it is a very smart idea, and I would argue to my colleagues, both Democrats and Republicans, that using the entrepreneurialship model more for trying to have Government programs be successful is something that I think…

The President is very focused--and it is really very bipartisan as well--on this whole new concept of social entrepreneurship.