The Penobscot River Restoration Project is the largest river restoration project ever undertaken in the eastern part of the United States.

I appreciate the administration's continued commitment to LWCF, which has funded the acquisition of key parcels within Maine's treasured Acadia National Park.

What we have found in Maine works best is working with private owners to ensure public access.

I think that is the kind of partnership that we need to ensure that the United States wins the race to develop offshore deepwater wind energy.

I will tell you that the harder they have pushed, the stronger the resistance has become.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

First, Mr. Chairman, let me say how much I look forward to working with you and the ranking member this year in crafting this important appropriations bill.

I look forward to discussing BOEM's efforts in Maine, including the Renewable Energy Task Force and Statoil's unsolicited lease application.

This is part of the race we cannot cede to the rest of the world.

first let me thank the Senator from Arkansas and the Senator from Tennessee for their usual courtesies but also for organizing this colloquy on the Senate floor this evening. I am very pleased to join my colleagues as we talk about the…

I do rise today to introduce with the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee Senator Lieberman, as well as Senator Rockefeller and Senator Feinstein, the Cyber Security Act of 2012. As always, it has been a great pleasure to work with…

It would be a collaborative effort, and the owners and operators of the critical infrastructure would decide how to meet those standards.

I do agree with that, Senator.

Under the bill that Senator Lieberman and I have introduced, to try to get that essential visibility that you have emphasized is so important, we would require mandatory reporting in the event of an attack because this cannot be…

I do agree that our critical infrastructure today is not as secure as it should be.

I share a lot of the concerns that my colleagues have expressed about some of the cuts in the budget, particularly those that affect shipbuilding and the size of our fleet.

I believe there is a lot of confusion over who does what and who should do what.

every one of your predecessors since 2006 has called 313 ships the minimum necessary to meet our national security requirements.

I want to thank you for the Navy's ongoing effort to reduce the $3 billion backlog of sustainment, restoration, and modernization funding at its four public shipyards.

if there is an attack on critical infrastructure, the consequences are so much greater.

I'm so disturbed by the frequency of these attacks. It raises questions about our vetting process.

We need the expertise of industry, of NSA, of DHS, of everybody working together.

is supportive of the bipartisan legislation being introduced by Senators Lieberman and Collins

I think those are basic vulnerabilities.

Once that industrial base is gone, you never get it back. Once those trained workers go into other fields, you've lost them forever, and that would greatly weaken our capabilities.