"I thank Senator Boxer for her efforts and I will continue working with her and our colleagues to make our country's pipelines safer."
"I'm proud that last night that the Senate passed my Pipeline Transportation Safety Improvement Act."
"I'd like to thank Senator Lautenberg for his leadership on this issue, and for working closely with the minority to craft a bill that will make needed improvements while ensuring that pipeline operato..."
"Thank you for acknowledging that one accident is too many. And particularly such a horrific incident as we had in San Bruno is just unthinkable, and horrific."
"We have a real problem in that local governments don't know what's below, that local residents don't know what's below."
"But is there the likelihood that thousands of people watching this today have 30-inch natural gas pipelines running through their subdivisions without their knowledge?"
"Is it a good idea for 30-inch natural gas pipes to be running through residential areas like this?"
"A reformed USF needs to adequately be responsive to the unique needs of rural America."
"It's important that carriers willing to invest in rural broadband infrastructure... are not impeded by anti-competitive regulatory framework."
"The Commission needs to make sure it does not embrace one technology over the other."
"Proposals that raise marginal tax rates go the wrong direction from a tax reform proposal."
"Let us talk about raising the retirement age because that is one thing that we now have the ability to do in Medicare that would save money in ways that created better incentives."