"I certainly want to commend the President for your nomination and for elevating the SBA to a cabinet-level position."
"Now, I know that back in 1980, President Jimmy Carter actually directed the SBA to provide liquidity to auto dealers to meet a similar credit crisis."
"As Senator Snowe said earlier relative to some of the stresses that small businesses are facing, this is an area that is quickly rising to a level of a crisis if we can't provide some help to some of ..."
"I do echo Senator Casey's comments about the importance of being clear with the American people about what our strategy is there and what we hope to accomplish."
"Shouldn't the goal of our oversight of markets be to avoid or prevent the kind of manipulation that we saw over the last year, regardless of whether there was intent involved or not?"
"New Hampshire, as you may know, is home to the Seabrook nuclear power plant, which I believe was the last power plant licensed in the United States and actually constructed and operating."
"One of the things that I think drove up the cost of Seabrook was the fact that Three Mile Island happened in the middle of that construction."
"How many reactors do you think it would take to get to those economies of scale?"
"As you know the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the Secretary of Energy to guarantee loans of up to 80 percent of construction costs for energy projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, incl..."
"I think it's worth exploring."
"The $5 billion that was included in the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act for weatherization, I think is a very important investment."