President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid realized that the investment in passenger rail systems is needed NOW not over the next 50 years.

In January 2008, after 2 years of meetings, hearings, and research, our Commission recommended to Congress a vision for transportation policy and funding in America.

President Obama, Senator Reid and this Congress realized that that investment in passenger rail is needed now, not over the next 50 years.

This new law finally paves the way for a solid and ongoing Federal commitment to passenger rail.

We need to invest more in rail.

This time cries out for major investment in high-speed rail.

Harry Reid spoke, and a number of the other Senators, about the importance of keeping our tourism industry strong in troubled economic times.

I urge members of this panel to work with their colleagues on the Finance Committee to implement a permanent fix so airport private activity bonds are not subject to the AMT penalty.

I am a co-sponsor of the Travel Promotion Act, a measure reintroduced this week by Senator Dorgan.

We appreciate the leadership of Senator Byron Dorgan and Nevada's own Senator John Ensign, Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Tourism is an important industry for our country and especially for my state, Nevada.

I'm supportive of your efforts, Chairwoman Klobuchar, in S. 835 to drive open fuel standards for automobile manufacturers.

Senator Lugar raised a question with me and--publicly--about why some of this money isn't getting out there into these companies.

Cap and trade, as it is currently defined in the Waxman bill... is not economy-wide.

The Waxman-Markey bill puts that out there; it says we're going to have this separate goal, we're going to put some investment directly in deforestation.

I see it as very significantly stronger and a much better card to play in the international negotiations.

This is not about what Mr. Menendez was talking about, 'I need more offsets.' This is about net reductions to protect the atmosphere.

We're talking about a social program, where we're investing in paying them for environmental services so they stop cutting down the forest.

The recipients of these bonuses will not be able to keep all of their money.

Senator Reid's proposed legislation provides that the Regional Planning Entity (RPE) will solicit input from regional transmission organizations, independent system operators, States, generator owners, prospective developers and other…

The group agreed that a national Clean Energy Smart Grid is an economic, environmental, and national security imperative.

there's got to be some political will at either the Federal or the State level for those issues to be resolved

Your daughter was on the Rachel Maddow Show last night and she was so good, stunningly good.

Senator Murkowski flew all night after really tearing up her knee, to come back and participate in what we are doing here this week.

I think we've established, at least in my mind, that women are tougher than men, or at least as tough as.