Mary Landrieu

Thanks to an extraordinarily and swift, extraordinary and swift advances in technology to locate, capture and produce natural gas, today this committee will discuss the expanded opportunities to export liquefied natural gas and the…

I think the Senate needs to take action on LNG exports.

Irrespective of political affiliation, you individually and collectively stand proudly for the principles of free and fair trade.

I believe that the delays have been inexcusable.

So final passage could potentially be--is it the Senator's understanding through the Chair--about 3 or so?

I realize the Senator is trying to move through this very important bill on the floor, which I fully support and thank him for the amendment. Does the Senator know what the action of the Senate will be once this bill is completed? And is…

Child welfare, particularly international child welfare, is more than a counselor issue.

I cannot find the word 'family' in, on any one of these pages.

Keeping them to the one they are born into, keeping that family together.

Thank you for the leadership you have provided and the partnerships that you have developed with other Governments, and nonprofit organizations, and businesses to leverage the money that the taxpayers of the United States are putting…

Children belong in families. Families belong together.

Children belong in families, children should be in families.

It is hard for us to even understand why there is a question as to whether this infrastructure is in the national interest.

Would you commit to me today, and to others, that you and your team will work to try to meet the original objectives of that $350 million to reconnect children that are orphaned by AIDS to families?

If the Congress does not provide waiver authority and funding for the World Heritage Program, then we hurt Poverty Point's chances of being designated a World Heritage site.

We believe such changes are necessary at the Department of State to ensure that, both internally and externally, international child welfare is treated as more than an immigration enforcement issue.

I applaud them for handling it. But I don't know how they deal with this enormous burden of all the refugees.

We are very, very serious about helping you to organize and put resources in your department that can focus on the fundamental fact that children belong in families.

I am going to stay focused not only in my role as a Senator, but as chair of the Energy Committee on really pressing the country to understand the importance of becoming an energy powerhouse.

But the problem is, when PEPFAR was created, there were approximately 15 million orphans in the world. There are now 17 million.

It is hard for us to even understand why there is a question as to whether this infrastructure is in the national interest.

I put language in last year's appropriations bill to prohibit you all from moving around the Jones Act.

We know what happens when children are not in the protection of the family. Horrible things happen.

I think it is important for the record that 65 percent of all the border juvenile apprehensions... are under the age of 16.

Forty-four percent of all undocumented aliens are apprehended along this border entering through the valley.