Thank you for your testimony today.

It is a terrific idea and innovation because what it is doing is it is really helping make that connection.

I applaud you and the President for focusing in on these issues of safety.

Our objective here is to have a rule where there is disclosure that brings about the confidence of the American public.

I am from Maryland, as you know, and very focused on the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the Bay watershed.

If the ball is hidden and nobody knows, then that is not going to fulfill the objective.

We need to--a commitment from the Department of the Interior that there is going to be program integrity, that there will be no attempts to pick winners and losers.

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I think the multiplier effect it has in terms of economic opportunities and, frankly, jobs that can be created is significant.

Some of the questions you have been asked are, I think, based on a faulty premise, which is that environmental regulation and caution in terms of how we proceed with respect to potential impact on the environment is inherently inimical to…

The industry keeps asserting that there is all this evidence that hydraulic fracturing can't contaminate underground sources of drinking water...

And I commend you for wanting to get more information about the process...

I am very concerned about the fact that we move carefully and smartly with respect to the development of this hydraulic fracturing process...

I do want to point out that the industry keeps asserting that there is all this evidence that hydraulic fracturing can't contaminate underground sources of drinking water...

I mean, I come from a state obviously that places the Chesapeake Bay as a number one treasure...

We have to make sure that we are doing this in a smart and prudent way.

This is a really interesting topic. It is something I was involved with quite a bit before I got here.

it is equally important that the schools where these career changers are placed are themselves prepared and ready to accommodate

There is a partnership now between the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

I think this is a terrific tool that is being put together, the national oceans policy.

This report is an important piece of the puzzle and we ought to pay great mind to it.

I am the author of something called the No Child Left Inside Act, which is a piece of legislation we have been bringing forth over the last two years here.

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I want to commend the President for the American Jobs Act. This bill gets squarely behind the program of putting our country back to work and rebuilding the Nation. As you go around and you talk to people, Americans understand implicitly…

If you can put new protections in place that create more confidence over time, that is going to be better for the industry.