You testified to this subcommittee, last year, that the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSC) was an important tool to help maintain the stockpile.

It is critical that these companies continue to have access to the OTC market for these hedges.

We thought that that issue had been resolved with the colloquy on the floor and with report language that we--at least I read to clarify that there was no intent for CFTC to take over regulation of matters that had been jurisdictional at…

This is an important effort, both to create high quality jobs in the near term and also to begin to reverse the course that we've been on of under investing in our country's competitiveness in clean energy technology.

It's also important that we be sure these investments are the right investments.

The energy infrastructure needs of the country are so substantial that I think we can only regard these investments as a downpayment.

I'm not wedded to my proposal, Senator Landrieu, and if there are other people who have better ideas, we ought to figure out a way of moving forward with those ideas.

I am pleased to join with the Ranking Member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Lisa Murkowski, in introducing the National Energy Efficiency Enhancement Act of 2010. This legislation would implement several agreements that…

We need to move forward with getting ourselves out of the great dependence that we have on foreign oil.

Hopefully, we can stop robbing LWCF so that we can support more of these projects in the future.

$900 billion, yes, were being credited to the Land and Water Conservation Fund but it never gets there.

We need to address the issues of global warming, which are real.