By passing this legislation, we will ensure that all moratorium-impacted leases are extended.

The Lease Act fairly restores time lost as a result of the offshore moratoria by extending the impacted leases by 1 year.

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.

We may be at high levels today, but we are not going up. We are going down.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Hutchison. I am proud to cosponsor the Lease Act with her.

If we don't start issuing permits more quickly for new drilling, if we don't start exploring in areas that really deserve to be explored, this is not going to be reversed.

There is a tremendous amount of money, Mr. Chairman, being invested by companies. There is oil and gas in the ground.

I say to the Senator, because he raises an excellent point, President Obama is not the first President to go overseas and ask them to produce more oil to send it to us. This goes on--President Clinton did it. President Bush did it. We beg…

I thank the Senator. I wish to ask the Senator a final point. We are going to hear tomorrow speeches given about America is at the highest production levels ever. That may be true. But it is true for a very short period of time--maybe the…

I thank my colleague from Alaska for asking me to join him in a general presentation and potential colloquy between the two of us about the importance of continuing our support for oil and gas production in the United States by the large…

Questions Submitted by Senator Mary L. Landrieu

I'm so glad you mentioned that, Admiral. Because I was recently down in Guatemala on a trip focused on another issue, but took the opportunity to get a security briefing by our Embassy, and this is exactly what they were talking about.

Getting the right intelligence before they leave the ports or intercepting them well before they get into our ports is a smart strategy.

I think we're about complete. If you all would just be patient, one more question from me, then we're going to end the meeting.

I helped to lead the effort to privatize the Army housing, which has been really successful with the family housing.

I'm concerned about the increased reliance by these major drug dealers to basically build their own submarines.

the Coast Guard saves 13 lives, responds to 65 search and rescue cases, provides a presence in all major ports...

Coast Guard policy requires an incident-specific preparedness review to assess lessons learned from major oil spills.

we had to change the paradigm. And this private housing has been phenomenally successful.

I think, the majority of the Members of the Senate--maybe not everyone, but the majority--to get deepwater drilling back up and operational in the Gulf of Mexico as soon as possible.

We just can't stop drugs at the border, along the Southwest Border. They're coming through maritime channels, ship channels, oceans, and bayous.

the average age of a Coast Guard ship is 40. Is that correct?

Thank you, Admiral. And again, thank you for your testimony today, for your forthrightness, for asking for what you really need.

When will you have that report to us? Do you think it will be 30 or 60 days in time for us to consider it in this budget cycle?

I rise today to introduce a bill that will be a critical component in our efforts to recover and rebuild Louisiana's vast coastal wetlands. My bill works to address the threatening problem of coastal wetland deterioration in Louisiana…