"Thank you to Chairman Thompson and to all the committee staff for ensuring this important field hearing could take place."
"I want it to get built, and I want you to speed that up. We have been working on it 40 years."
"In this country, 18-to 25-year-olds are the least likely to vote."
"I think having this office with the resources it needs to do that will be commendable and recognized as such by our friends and allies."
"What is the State Department doing with our partners along kind of the southern plank of NATO to assist them or increase trade or work on the pipeline, whatever?"
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Secretary."
"They always say, well, if we had an alternative with the U.S., we would do that."
"please come to us if there's something that Congress can do that you cannot do internally."
"Mitigation cannot be effective unless it is fairly distributed across all communities."
"But having that consistency, I think, is important."
"We are trying to do away with that, and have a more equitable policy."