This year, we will run the fourth consecutive deficit over $1 trillion.

Thank you very much for your testimony.

I plan to take some action on that and expect that some of my colleagues will be joining us in that regard.

If a business is going to be able to locate they have to have access to water.

We will continue to advocate for other governments to adopt transparency standards along the lines of those in the Dodd-Frank Act.

Truly, I believe that people are getting a real bargain with water supply and water service.

Senator Sessions' point is a very valid point.

I agree. I think there is bipartisan support here, as Senator Sessions indicated in his opening comments.

I am looking at the transportation bill as an opportunity to deal with storm runoff.

The stimulus was touted as the way to fix our Nation's infrastructure, but in the end it was one of the biggest bait and switch schemes of all time.

We need to reduce regulatory burdens and ensure that rural communities have the flexibility to resolve water quality issues in a cost-effective manner.

Let me just say and you don't need to respond, in regards to Alan Gross in Cuba, we appreciate the fact that you are working to get him released from the Cuban prison.

We want to make sure that water is included in those areas.

Senator Inhofe has been a strong proponent of moving forward with water infrastructure as has Senator Boxer.

I think we should push for some form of a clean water trust account that could leverage the dollars.

So we look at the whole operation: can we reduce chemical use, and our carbon footprint to ensure that we have resources available for our children and their children's children in the future.

It takes me back--the problems in Baltimore pre-date our mayor, and pre-dates your service even as a city councilwoman.

I think it would be helpful for us to have if you could, quantitate the cost of inaction.

If my math is right, that is four or five a day that you get every day of the year.

I really am encouraged by what the Mayor is saying in your conversations with EPA, of looking at three different sources and putting them together as a coordinated plan.

Energy Security Through Transparency, part of which became the Cardin-Lugar amendment S. 1504 to Dodd-Frank.

We support voluntary participation in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

lasting peace and stability depends just as much on meeting our citizens' legitimate aspirations as they do our military security.

There is nothing conservative about starving our foreign policy budget of a few billion dollars today in order to spend a trillion dollars later on when an otherwise avoidable crisis strikes or an armed conflict looms.

I do think we can do both, and I know there are many Members of the Senate who agree on that.