Michael McMahon

It creates uncertainty, and any time you create uncertainty in today's financial markets; it can affect your cost of capital.

If the industry is serious about it, we would love your help with the Super Pollutants Act, which would impose monitoring and emission regulations on new sources and existing methane sources.

America needs a safe, affordable, and abundant food supply produced within its borders.

Every pound of nitrogen and phosphorus that we don't import is a pound that we don't have worry about ending up in our water.

It is critical that this congested airspace be better regulated.

What specific actions do you see? For instance, should the resolution itself be tightened, be more specific language? Is more enforcement, vigilance needed, and what can we do to make sure that the forces of Hezbollah, which are bent on…

I think that Haiti and indeed the United Nations and the United States are blessed to have somebody of his commitment and stature actively engaged in supporting Haiti.

There needs to be obviously a clear, Federal chain of command, and that is essential during a catastrophic disaster.

As we sit here today celebrating Earth Day, as my colleagues mentioned, we are reminded how environmentally friendly moving people and freight by rail is.

Our Coast Guard is critically important for our Nation's ports' security and the safe rescue of so many at sea.

All eyes are watching us here in Washington. And we need to act now.

Our nation is in crisis--we face the most serious economic downturn since the Great Depression, and our people are suffering.

I urge the House Budget Committee to retain funding for the FFEL program while the Education and Labor Committee continues to study options for improving both loan programs for the benefit of all students.

We need to protect the integrity of our immigration policies and we cannot permit people to enter our Country illegally.

But there was something more. In your hearts there was courage.

On behalf of them, the countless many lives you saved, we thank you as well.

We need to make sure that the traveling public is treated with respect by adopting a strong passengers' bill of rights.

I already have faith that this Senate and this Congress will move forward on the Law of the Sea Convention.