Maurice Hinchey: “I know that Secretary Salazar is focusing to some extent, in addition to a lot of other things, on alternative energy…”

The protecting of our wild public lands, of course, as we know, is something that is deeply important.

Thank you very much. I deeply appreciate it. The situation that we're dealing with here is critically important. It's harming huge numbers of people. What the Senate has done is an adequate solution to this problem. They've provided the…

The growth is very, very slow, and the unemployment rate is still 9 percent.

If we can prevent pollution from occurring and dangers to the public health, we certainly ought to do that because we have huge examples for many centuries in this country where we haven't prevented the pollution and we end up having to…