Frank Lautenberg

You dispute the fact that a consensus has validity, do I understand you correctly?

Asthma is on the rise. The causes are very complex and not fully understood.

I think they see the possibility of opportunity here.

Thank you very much.

Do you challenge the findings that were presented here by your colleagues about the growth in warming and the severity of storms, sea rising?

A warming world means rising sea levels, and rising sea levels have global implications.

Greenland is really the canary in the coal mine when it comes to climate change.

Do you think there is a conspiracy, Dr. Happer?

We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything we have considered seriously in climate model simulations.

Well, permit me to finish the sentence, please.

the amendment we have before us is of critical importance. By adopting this infrastructure amendment, we will improve this package by increasing its focus on repairing and upgrading our Nation's infrastructure. The fact is, our Nation's…

Ray, can we count on you to fight to get us the full funding to meet this law, to meet the increased demand for rail travel that we're seeing?

I look forward to working with you, Ray LaHood on these key issues as we continue the confirmation process.

I look forward to your guidance and leadership here.

The current FAA tried to redesign the air routes over our region, New York, New Jersey.

Ray LaHood is here from the State of Illinois and he's had wonderful escorts to the table.

Safety you said was a principal factor.

We're going to count on you. Tell me if you will work with the air traffic controllers.

We don't like spectators doing these jobs. We don't like second guessers doing these jobs. We like leadership.

This is a national priority. It attaches the financial center of the world with the rest of the country with ease and reliability.

Few issues are of the importance that a clean environment is to our State, free of toxics, free of pollution.

Global warming, for example, the most serious environmental threat that we face, we haven't done very much at the Federal level.

We are going to work with you. We know each other and I feel in some ways like you are part of my group.

What it does to the threats to childhood growth and health is awful.

we have to try whatever we can to eliminate or certainly reduce this attack on the well-being of our families, our children, our grandchildren.