Mary Landrieu

We are trying to grow jobs in America, not lose them.

We don't want to leave $1 billion or $2 billion or $3 billion on the table when it can be collected and contribute to our effort and the great challenge that is before this Congress today.

Our duty is to ensure that your agencies, funded by this subcommittee, are provided the resources needed to do an excellent job in this field to enforce our existing trade laws.

For that reason alone, we should be more aggressive in collecting duties we are rightly owed.

I think there is a bigger discussion about whether the current system... can be effectively used.

Do you have an estimate of, in your view, having done this review, of what our gap is?

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as we all know, has many roles as it protects our country's security, including our economic security, which is sometimes in this Department overlooked.

A critically underappreciated aspect of the Department's economic security role is enforcement of our Nation's trade laws.

I think that is one of the things that Senator Coats and I really want to get to the bottom of in this hearing.

Is our liquidation process working or not working?

We are just desperate literally to find models that work for people like Mr. Blinderman

Senator Hagan was absolutely a leader in pushing us to establish this provision within our bill.

So, my question to those listening is if a gentleman with a degree of distinction from Oxford cannot get a loan from the United States banking system, how is it possible for 99 or 100 percent of the kids that I represent who are young…

The contracting of small business has no stronger advocate than Senator Cardin.

As long as I chair this Committee, we are going to continue to push open this door.

I believe it is still our responsibility as policymakers to lift up these entrepreneurs.

This legislation has been touted as the single most important piece of legislation in decades for small business.

As many of you know, this week is National Small Business Week.

We think it played a very important part in actually helping not only, you know, innovative companies, but also established companies, in developing a new line of automobiles with advanced technology that get better mileage and are at high…

We have had a breakthrough, as you know, in finding almost 100 years, I understand, of natural gas reserves.

Natural gas is, you know, a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses. We have a 100-year supply.

We think, because we have done this for a while in Louisiana, that fracking is safe under certain circumstances.

It can produce vehicles that can achieve 40 miles per gallon, which I know the chair, who has been a leader on CAFE standards, would appreciate.

I want to clear for the record that--and this is from the EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook--this is not Mary Landrieu's chart.

But the bottom line is we need to step it up, or these numbers are going to get worse, not better.