That's why I, along with Senator Sanders, championed the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program.

I'm all for leveraging.

I believe he is the right man for the job.

I have real concerns about having sensitive U.S. technology fall into the hands of countries that weren't supposed to get those technologies.

Well, if you speak to the Madoff victims, they don't particularly have that view, and I would like to elicit from you a commitment that if you are confirmed by the Senate, that you will meet with a group of representatives of the victims…

Chairman Dodd is a busy man these days. He is in the midst of achieving the most important reform in our health care system in a generation.

I would like to, first of all, thank Chairman Dodd and Ranking Member Shelby and Senator Vitter and their staffs for working with us to put together today's hearing.

we will still be in the position that it will be our national security interest to have security and stability in Afghanistan

this dictates that we have a long-term obligation to Afghanistan

I see it as clearly aspirational. And I think we need to be honest with the American people.

it angers me when I see schemes and scams that seem almost exclusively geared towards unfairly stripping money out of the pockets of working families.