Bob Menendez

That should seem an enormous attraction to anyone if they are just doing the math.

Have you been able to quantify a difference in people's lives as a result of it?

I believe that any strategy to address these challenges has to involve the buildings where we live.

I think this is a worthwhile endeavor, and I want to commend it to the Department's attention.

It is good for our planet. It is good for homeowners. It can be good for our economy as well as our environment.

The spread of green housing is not only imperative from an environmental standpoint, it can also produce real cost savings.

I rise today in strong support of this conference report for robust sanctions against Iran. I was proud to serve with, among others of my colleagues, Senator Dodd, on the conference committee. I want to recognize the hard work he has done…

I will look forward to the answers because, you know, we have a history of MMS allowing, for example, on inspections...

So, therefore, your moratorium not only figures out how to move forward in a way that is safer, because I know that the administration still has a view that we have to have drilling.

Now, what would happen if that was still the law?

Right now, between regulators and big oil, what prohibits an inspector from signing off BP's exploratory plan today and accepting a job with BP tomorrow? Nothing.

Isn't this something we should be looking at? Isn't this the very essence of what we want to change at MMS?

I want to commend Chairman Bingaman and Senator Murkowski for introducing the bill.

You know my views on drilling, which are quite different than the majority of this committee.

It is great to know that BP can pay for its massive mess, but there are other entities that clearly could not.

I hope and look forward to working with the chairman as we incorporate some of these ideas.

Obviously, we are all oil industry.

I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss legislation that I have coauthored with Senator Nelson of Florida to put a halt to cozy relationships with big oil and fundamentally reform the way we regulate big oil.

It establishes new requirements for investigation of all accidents and the public sharing of data from these reviews.

This bill clarifies the multiple responsibilities of the Department of Interior in managing the Outer Continental Shelf.

It seems to me that we need to codify reform into law.

It is with this in mind that we have introduced S. 3516, the Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2010.

Well, I hope we have a cop on the beat, not asleep at the switch.

A law is only good if it is enforced.

No wonder Ahmadinejad goes, 'Ho hum,' to the resolutions; they mean nothing.