Roger Wicker

We are talking about jobs for Americans today. We are talking about energy for the entire country of the United States of America, not just for one region.

It is not just the Gulf Coast counties; it is not just the Gulf Coast states. It is everybody.

The Federal Government needs to review thoroughly the Deepwater Horizon explosion so we can prevent a disaster like this from happening in the future, but this should not be done at the expense of the Gulf Coast economy.

Is there more capacity at Pascagoula for more sensory testing, if we could get the work to them?

I'm going to try to remember this entire saga the next time I'm asked to vote for a huge Federal expansion or a huge Federal solution to problems that might exist out there in the United States of America.

As Senator Cantwell said, we're seeing the same technologies we had in the Exxon Valdez, but there have been improvements on the margins.

Please do that, and is there any reason why we couldn't do chemical testing there at the Pascagoula facility also?

I have to agree with my colleague, Senator Snowe, about the bureaucratic cumbersomeness of the response.

This is a very important topic, which deserves and requires continuing research and investigation if we are to keep up with the ever-changing Internet.

I am very pleased to join my senior Senator, Senator Cochran, in wholeheartedly endorsing the nomination of Carlton Reeves for the position of U.S. district court judge.

The results could be catastrophic, as they were earlier because we walked away.

We are in Afghanistan because of 9/11.

I think, Ambassador Holbrooke, you have answered a lot of questions today.

It seems astonishing to most people, but environmental statutes sometimes are preventing us from cleaning up the water.

As news of the drilling operation's safeguards omitted in the lead up to this tragic explosion come to light, I grow more and more troubled at the negligence exhibited by the responsible parties in the operation of Deepwater Horizon.

I appreciate Mrs. Roshto and Mrs. Anderson being here today. It is under very unfortunate circumstances.

If we can accept a process where 100 percent of the oil is taken out of the water and only... the water that is put back in only contains 1 or 2 percent, then, to me, you have a 98 percent or 99 percent success rate.

I think everyone here would agree that you're entitled to equal treatment under the law.

What do you say to the charge that the U.N. sanctions have been so watered down and so weakened that they're relatively meaningless?

I am concerned we are distorting the economy in Afghanistan by paying interpreters so much money.

What do you say to that? I know Senator McCain was pressing on this yesterday.

Yesterday, I believe, the committee made a very grave mistake with regard to the provision involving the repeal of the don't ask, don't tell policy. This has been the policy since the days of the Clinton administration. It has worked…

I would like to echo the sentiments of Senator Cochran relative to Walton Gresham being awarded NPGA's Bill Hill Award. Mr. Gresham has been exceptional in helping legislators on the Federal, State, and local levels understand the…

So, are you saying that I am mistaken in the premise of my question, that the Federal Railroad Administration does have the authority, to the extent that it is envisioned in the proposed Act?

I have a great deal of confidence in NAS, for example, that they will apply sound science and call it by the numbers.