We want to thank Senate Majority Leader Reid and his staff for reaching out and consulting NARUC as he drafted this proposal.

Your bill and Senator Reid's bill touch on these issues quite pointedly.

Our nation is in peril. We face the highest unemployment since 1981 and our President is pointing to renewable energy development as a driver for creating millions of new jobs.

The leadership of President Obama, members of this committee, especially under the leadership of Chairman Bingaman, and many elected officials, business leaders, and the American people, gives us reason for hope that the time for solutions…

the legislation proposed by Senator Reid includes additional safeguards to ensure that new transmission lines serve clean renewable generation.

The above members of the Patient and Consumer Coalition strongly support the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. that medical devices makers are shielded from personal injury lawsuits.

I'm confident that the President's plan will help create jobs and lay the groundwork for long-term economic growth in Nevada and across the entire country.

Working together, in partnership with the White House, Federal, State, and local governments, community leaders and the private sector, we can and we must meet this moment with the action it requires.

I appreciate your leadership on this issue and look forward to the testimony from our witnesses.

Sen. Reid is to be commended for bringing this issue to Congress' attention.

We have been gratified to see many of these recommendations reflected in S. 539, introduced last week by Senator Reid.

In Iowa, shuttered factories are now re-opening to build parts for wind turbines.

I also wish to thank Senator Reid for his leadership and interest in this important issue.

They're talking about President Bush's last budget. It's come under fire for all the pork it contains; the Democrats and Republicans squirreling away billions for pet projects.

It ought to be headline news in newspapers because it is a scandal.

Forty percent of the health care needs of American Indians are unmet.

It takes huge courage to do what Senator Reid did, what Ms. Jetty did, and what her family did...

I support efforts of Federal agencies, public-private partnerships, tribes and others who develop and provide suicide prevention treatment programs are vitally important.

Any time there is a situation where 900,000 of our youth, 900,000 a year, plan their own death, and 712,000 of those youth actually attempt it, that, I would say, qualifies as a public health crisis.

I came to the realization that suicide was a national problem, not my problem, not my family's problem, not Nevada's problem, but a national problem.

Holding this hearing is so vitally important, and your dedication to improving and saving the lives of Native Americans, particularly our kids.

It is a shameful thing that ought to be headline news across this Country.

No one should be embarrassed about this. No one should feel it is their fault.

Suicide is a huge problem in this Country, with 32,000 deaths a year.