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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.'

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 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.

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…

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.

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

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

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

This report is sort of the definitive authority that virtually nothing much has been done, missing 18 out of 25 marks, a nation still unprepared to prevent or respond to a catastrophic disaster.

Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating.

It also gave so much more work to Homeland Security. And, of course, we know they're having a very difficult time doing the work that they're supposed to be doing now, in terms of recovery, rebuilding, and getting prepared for other…

It also gave so much more work to Homeland Security. And, of course, we know they're having a very difficult time doing the work that they're supposed to be doing now, in terms of recovery, rebuilding, and getting prepared for other…