I hope you will come, after you're the Interior Secretary, with me to the Statue of Liberty, help me break the shackles on the crown.

I think this nomination hearing is one of the most important this Committee will hold.

I am confident that the committee--and the full Senate--will conclude that he is exceptionally well-qualified to serve in this important position with great distinction.

It is my sincere honor to introduce Cecilia Rouse as President-elect Obama's nominee for the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors.

I am going to support your nomination. I am going to hold you to what I expect to see in robust enforcement.

We will embrace the ethic of renewable energy with a new vigor and a new resolve.

The ability is not by direct intervention of the United States, but by assisting the hybrid African Union-U.N. forces.

I want to applaud your stand that you have taken concerning genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.

I am confident that the Committee and the full Senate will see that she is eminently qualified for the position and will confirm her for this important post.

She will not only be the first African American Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, I believe she will be the best Environmental Protection Agency Administrator we have seen in the history of that department.

Finally, as Senators, we all know that we can't make all the people love all the decisions we make all of the time.