Frank Lautenberg

Well, we are going to need your support in getting this study done.

I think something like that has to be examined, whether or not we penalize the car driver now, the user.

Last month, I toured the Passaic River basin in New Jersey following a severe storm and saw the devastation firsthand.

This includes creating a national high speed rail network, which I was disappointed to learn today has been on the chopping block for the naysayers.

I have serious concerns about corn ethanol's ability to serve as one of the leading alternatives.

Given that Federal law already mandates an increasing amount of biofuels to be used every year until 2022, what is the net gain for our taxpayers?

Under President Obama's leadership, we are finally taking steps to kick this dangerous addiction by investing in better and smarter ways of moving people and goods.

I was pleased to see that your budget request included funding for the Port Monmouth beach project in New Jersey.

I want to ask Mr. Pantuso a question here. The New York bus crash was, I guess, one of the worst bus accidents that we have seen.

I think this was a very good hearing, and we know that we have got to stay on the job, that responses have to be quick and thorough, and that we continue to be able to tell the American people you will be safe when you get in that bus.

The problem is that we are now in the State where erosion, other violations of a better environment, continues to exacerbate the problem.

I hope so because something does not work, as is visible, when it is heavy weather.

I do not want to put you on the spot, but I do not think that is because there is less need.

Of course, bullet trains and plug-in vehicles alone will not break our addiction. We must also invest in cleaner, cheaper fuels to power the Nation's automobiles.

The United States leads the world in fuel cell patents. Fuel cells can help reduce our dependence on oil and air pollution while at the same time creating jobs.

does that, Secretary Chu, suggest that we are going to fall further behind this--back of these countries with the kind of budget that we are talking about at this moment?

Thank you, Secretary Chu for the wonderful work you do for our country and for helping us now to try and solve problems that will directly affect how our economy recovers and how we protect ourselves from a lack of energy to fuel our needs.

We are going to need your support in getting this study done. The Passaic River has been a place with constant flooding and problems that result from that.

Well, might that accidentally or unintentionally cause a company to get desperate and search for personnel to kind of ignore a poor driving record?

We will be anxious to get the panel's report, and hope that we can establish the fact that this does not present other environmental problems.

What can we expect with air pollution coming into New Jersey from these activities?

Few things in life are more essential than the water we drink, and government has few responsibilities as critical as protecting our country's water supply.

This so-called Halliburton loophole eliminates the Federal oversight that we would like to see of companies that inject chemicals into the ground in order to get to the hard to reach natural gas.

But communities across the country are reporting serious contamination of their water supplies from a drilling process that we are now looking at, fracking.

We have to make nuclear safety a national priority.