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 overseas.

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.

I think part of the reason both the Republican Administration and the Democratic leadership... focus so much on the recent delta legislation...

Thank you, Senator McCain.

I believe that this is a reasonable and timely way to mitigate the most urgent impacts of the water crisis in California.

Thank you, Senator Boxer. I look forward to working with Senator Bennett, with Chairman Bingaman as we move forward on this legislation.

I guess from my perspective it makes sense also to have offsets.

I really commend the Secretary for moving forward aggressively on that process.

It makes sense to me that we need both a floor so there can be confidence investing in new technology.

if we move forward on cap-and-trade, we certainly need to address resources to make sure the CFTC is able to fully address all of the issues involved in this, which are incredibly important.

I am writing to support passage of S.1453 that provides for continued annual funding of the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish recovery programs at current levels through fiscal year 2023.

EPA has said that 20 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. can be sequestered in agriculture and forest lands.

it has been a pleasure to work with the Chairman, your staff and others in the last year since the subcommittee that I chair held a hearing on offsets when the previous bill was up before consideration.

I hope the subcommittee will support the National Lighthouse Stewardship Act.

Michigan's lighthouses are an important part of our history, and the history of the Great Lakes.

On behalf of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, I am writing to support passage of S.1453 that provides for continued annual funding of the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish recovery programs at current levels through fiscal year 2023.

Thank you for your letter of June 1, 2009, cosigned by your colleagues, in support of the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) efforts to encourage farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners to address climate change and provide ecosystem…

I think this is very, very important, and we need it yesterday.

President Obama has spoken about a $50 billion commitment through that fund.

I was pleased to have championed section 136 of the Energy Bill of 2007.

I know one of the things that we've worked on with the recovery plan was a manufacturing credit which the chairman led and was pleased to partner in.

This means a lot of jobs.