John Warner: “I think the record should show that we recognize the leadership being given by the President of the United States now on…”

You will carry with you for the rest of your life the recollections of the work that you have done for one of America's most valued assets, the men and the women and their families of the armed services of the United States.

I'm hopeful someday Congress will pass a, one of those words, comprehensive bill on a whole range of energy directives because our country is waiting desperately for it.

It is a moving experience for me to reenter this room. I served on this committee for 30 years.

Judging from my own experience, these four resumes constitute an extraordinary body of knowledge needed in these respective positions and needed by our country at a critical time.