"I am very pleased that Senator Lugar has joined with me as well as the Chair and Senator Brown."
"I very much appreciate your leadership, Madam Chair, and also the priorities that you laid out for us in terms of this bill."
"I think it is clear, though, in this economic time where families are struggling with one or two or three different jobs or part-time jobs to try to pull things together and keep a roof over their hea..."
"American jobs are worth protecting."
"Saying to people, we can only compete if you work for less and lose your health care and pension, is not how we are going to keep a standard of living in America."
"Every other country seems to get it but us in terms of the need to invest in our own jobs at home."
"It is tremendously disappointing to the labor movement, those of us who represent workers and manufacturing, that we are seeing the investments--that our tax dollars have been made to promote jobs ove..."
"I believe that this is a reasonable and timely way to mitigate the most urgent impacts of the water crisis in California."
"This bill, which is cosponsored by Senator Boxer, would facilitate additional water transfers of up to 250,000 to 300,000 acre-feet in California's Central Valley."
"Thank you, Senator Boxer. I look forward to working with Senator Bennett, with Chairman Bingaman as we move forward on this legislation."
"Thank you, Senator McCain."
"I think part of the reason both the Republican Administration and the Democratic leadership... focus so much on the recent delta legislation..."