In my opinion, the most effective way to address the challenges facing the Valles Caldera National Preserve is to move away from the experimental management framework and toward a more tested public lands management structure.

I believe there is now general agreement that the trust will not be able to meet the law's goal of managing the preserve while achieving financial self-sufficiency.

I think that also speaks to the importance of the legislation I have introduced, which would give us more research.

I hope that you move forward in that other area as aggressively as you can, because I don't really see much hope that Congress is going to act aggressively on this.

Thank you, Chairman Lautenberg, and thank you to the panelists.

It is time for us to get to work again on pipeline safety.

It stunned me that the emergency response plan, as I understand it, didn't include plans for the blowout preventer to fail...

the Senate Rules Committee held another important hearing today to review yet another example of how the Senate rules are abused. I want to thank Chairman Schumer again for holding these hearings--they have been invaluable in exploring…

Thank you for doing this hearing. I think the issue of pipeline safety is a very important one.

In Senate, 'Motion to Proceed' Should Be Non-Debatable.

Permanently protecting this unusual landscape as a Preserve in our National Park Service system is the right thing to do.

Congress mandated that the FCC create a National Broadband Plan to address one of the most significant infrastructure challenges of our time.