John Sarbanes

I wanted to just go back to the climate change thing real quickly because Congressman Rohrabacher was pointing to a group of I guess you might call them dissenters on the view that climate change is now being driven by this sort-of a…

However many scientists there may be out there who indicated some anxiety or concern or resistance to the notion of climate change, there is an exponentially greater number of people, it appears to be, on the other side who really believe…

Do you think he would have bothered to know more if he had been required to personally certify the safety and adequacy of these plans?

I think what you are doing is suggesting a reasonable set of regulatory oversight which in many ways will substitute for what has been a failed bureaucracy.

I think your recommendations based on the findings you have made are very, very helpful and will be for a lot of us going forward.

I am delighted that we are going to be voting today on the Telework Improvements Act of 2010, a bill that I introduced some time ago with bipartisan cosponsorship. What this bill will do is expand the Federal telework policy, which was…

I will support our troops in this supplemental but I will also continue to press for their withdrawal from Afghanistan and for a meaningful discussion of exactly how that can be accomplished in accordance with the timeline originally set…

I just wanted to commend my colleague, Congressman Altmire, for introducing this resolution to designate the week beginning May 2 as National Physical Education and Sport Week. Today, the President is going to be launching at Bell…

We are in a terrific place now where we have the opportunity not just to do the right thing for the environment but, at the same time, to create a tremendous number of jobs and economic opportunities for the workforce out there. It's a…

One of the things that this does, this education and training for the next generation, is that it encourages our kids to become comfortable with science; to look at the world through an empirical lens; to make decisions based on data and…

I also would like to commend Senator Dorgan for his leadership on this issue in the Senate.

Mr. Kildee's commitment to Native Americans is well known and widely admired.

I would be delighted if this Committee moved forward with either my bill, or Mr. Kildee's legislation, H.R. 3742.

Carcieri has the potential to become a revenue grab for states, and could cause them to call the status of tribal lands into question.

It makes no sense to draw an arbitrary date for tribal recognition in order to enable the Secretary to put land into trust.

The federal government's treatment of tribal nations over most of the last 200 years has often been reprehensible.

H.R. 3742 enjoys bipartisan support in Congress with 24 co-sponsors from all parts of the country.

This decision affects many tribes across the nation, particularly those Indian tribes who have gained Federal recognition through the administrative process.

H.R. 3742 will amend the IRA of 1934 by reaffirming the Secretary of the Interior's authority to take land into trust for Federally recognized Indian tribes.

I felt compelled and obligated to introduce legislation to fix this problem.

Congress did not intend that law to regulate fisheries.

The administration can only do what it does under the authority of current law, and they can do quite a bit

I do not see the energy legislation being enacted within the next few weeks.

This is a critical hearing, and we have had a number of panels come forward and clearly, it is a very contentious and emotional issue.

I have used for myself as a way of understanding this the metaphor or analogy, I guess, of a levee that we are worried about breaching.