Jeff Bingaman

And your proposal is that at age 62 they would no longer be required to pay the worker's portion of the payroll tax?

It would seem to me that, to the extent you decouple, you add great complexity to the issue.

Should we have a guiding principle with regard to these territories, which essentially determines that they be treated as States, except where we decide that there is an exception to that?

I mean, my sense is that many tribes are as President Porter has described, and they have great needs and substantial poverty and all.

If the Federal Helium Reserve is not reauthorized, this helium will be eliminated from the marketplace causing a shortage of supply against consumer demand.

Thank you very much.

More importantly if Congress does not act, the helium program will disappear all together in less than 3 years.

Helium is a critical element used in numerous applications in our medical, industrial and scientific communities.

The Helium Stewardship Act of 2012 represents a step toward a solution as it allows the U.S. Government to continue drawing from helium reserves.

Helium is critical to a wide range of industrial, scientific and medical markets including medical devices such as MRIs.

The current sales and management structure for the Helium Reserve is distorting the private helium market.

It's a bipartisan bill that addresses the need for ongoing stewardship of the Nation's helium reserve in Amarillo, Texas.

This is a hearing on S. 2374, the Helium Stewardship Act of 2012.

Senator Shaheen and Senator Blumenthal have both spoken to me repeatedly about the importance of this hearing.

We need to ensure that our electrical grid is resilient and can withstand the impacts of severe weather.

This is to advise you that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a business meeting on Thursday, April 26, 2012, immediately preceding the full committee hearing beginning at 9:30 a.m., in room SD 366 of the Dirksen…

Opponents of policies to reduce carbon emissions often cite the costs and economic burden of such policies as a main reason for their opposition.

I agree with EPA's finding. I agree with Dr. Abdalati. There is a strong scientific consensus about what is happening.

Today we have a hearing on the impacts of sea level rise on domestic energy and water infrastructure.

I would ask that you think about setting aside a significant proportion of those funds, 15, 20, 30 percent for the training of teachers.

Now, there is a pretty significant distinction between high school students taking courses, college-level courses in the high school that they are attending and high school students taking college-level courses at a school, a secondary…

But in the case of Advanced Placement, it has always seemed to me that the value of Advanced Placement is the rigorous standards that it puts in place and insists upon, and the training of teachers to teach those courses.

What do we know about the results, if anything? Do we know about which of these methods works best or what the advantages or disadvantages of them are?

The issue again as you know, Mr. Chairman, in New Mexico is we have got high schools all over and the physical distance between a college campus and a high school is too far to bus kids.

We are worried about next year and we will be bringing you data on the value of this Federal investment in terms of both college readiness and completion for low-income students and savings on tuition costs for those students.