Bob Menendez Jr.

Well, let me ask you, you have twice been criticized by your own Inspector General for keeping, quote, "a light touch," light for too long when banks under your watch were getting in trouble.

Would it be useful for Congress to clarify the Department's authority along the lines of the amendment that I circulated to you and others?

So my question is would you support a plan that would ensure that the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences would provide studies to the Department before they made a determination better understanding the potential…

If oil and gas companies are not using the leases they have now, I'd like to know why they need more leases in environmentally and economically sensitive areas.

Families like this army sergeant are all over America waiting for their lender or servicer to strike an agreement.

I want to commend you and the administration for taking the housing crisis seriously and developing a proposal that I think lays the foundation for some real relief to American families.

So are you telling the Committee that what you have already--you collectively, the Federal Reserve, the administration, Treasury--what you have announced, if implemented well, will be sufficient to meet our challenge? Or are there other…

I am reminded of the Fed's failure to implement the law Congress passed in 1994 to protect consumers and regulate mortgage lending practices.

Making credit card lending practices fairer would be the right thing to do under any circumstances, but under these economic conditions, it is an absolute necessity.

Credit card reform has been one of the top priorities that I have had both in the House and in the Senate since I arrived here.

But, if we institute a strong national renewable electricity standard, doesn't it have the potential to create thousands, or even tens of thousands, of new jobs in manufacturing, in installing wind turbines, solar panels, jobs boring holes…

New Jersey has an incredibly ambitious plan to reduce our carbon footprint, and perhaps the centerpiece of that plan is our State's renewable portfolio standard: 22.5 percent of New Jersey's electricity must come from renewable sources by…

Mr. Chairman, since you paid for dinner last night, I will try to accommodate you.

We need to develop our resources, but we need to develop them in a thoughtful and responsible way.

We know the importance of technology in this committee, and how that holds so much of a key to our energy independence.

Our first and foremost task will be to restore the integrity of the Department of Interior.

We need to build a house of energy independence for America.

We believe that if such legislation were enacted into law, a significant market barrier to distributed solar generation would finally be gone.

I have sponsored legislation. We are proud in New Jersey of being the second largest producer of solar-related equipment.

HUD has been sitting at the kid's table and it is time for that to change.

The impact of the housing crisis and the foreclosure crisis is being felt across the country, but there is a universe that has no ability to protect themselves from the results.

I would say that if you look at it in the context of the importance of jobs, what drives that tourism industry to that part of New Jersey from the entire region is its beaches.

We have several community banks that are at the heart of lending, and they have made requests, and they seem to be lost in the process.