I wonder who among you would be prepared to declare that climate change is not happening.

I think we all addressed to the concerns of working people across the country, no less so in the Gulf.

So, I encourage you to encourage others to make applications if they can demonstrate that they have been affected negatively, and, frankly, if there is not enough money to cover those applications that come forward out of the existing fund…

I don't really understand the argument that this is a de facto moratorium.

I think that that is appropriate.

We need to rebuild the country. We are up to the task if we are given the tools and the leadership to do that.

I have a much deeper understanding and appreciation of the work that you do and how critical it is to the innovation agenda for our country.

We need to rebuild this country, that while we were sleeping, in effect, the infrastructure of the country has been crumbling around us.

If you were here during the earlier panel, which I believe you were, you heard me hammer on this theme of rebuilding the country and how that is something that Americans understand implicitly.

the mistakes that the IPCC has made along the way are ones that have been acknowledged, that they have recognized, that when you lay them against all the rest of the information and analysis and assessment that has been done, really pales…

the kind of data we have available to us now is much more extensive and robust than we have ever had before

Frankly, my perspective is that the industry is moving faster than is prudent in this region right now.

The industry is presenting it as holding great promise as a kind of bridge from traditional conventional sources of energy to, you know, renewable energy sources.

If the promise of this technology is all that it is being presented as, then the industry certainly is in a position to make sure they do it right.

I think is a real mistake.

they should be turning it toward the industry and saying, why won't you produce with the permits that you already have?

Thank you all. We appreciate your efforts to manage these lands in a sensible way and the President's efforts in his budget to make sure that we are paying attention to our priorities.

I was encouraged by the President's fiscal year 2012 budget with respect to the investments being made in some of the critical areas...

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…

It would be a very odd thing indeed if all of the academies of sciences of the world... had all reached this conclusion.

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…

I wanted to speak to the underlying CR, H.R. 1. Madam Chair, in particular I want to speak to the fact that the American people have been very clear in their understanding that what we need to do is rebuild the country and that we need to…

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.

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.