So it's your intention as the CEO of General Motors to have the Volt lead the way toward, let's say, electric and hybrid electric vehicles revitalizing our auto manufacturing sector by providing products that consumers would find…

What we need to know, Administrator Strickland, is whether there was a valid reason for so much time to pass or whether, as the majority has concluded, or has at least offered, that NHTSA was acting in a politically motivated manner.

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to America's economic recovery is that corporations can legally buy elections and then influence policies which move millions of jobs out of America which escape taxation by offshoring profits, which…

If you are truly protecting our lives and protecting our best interests, if you are looking at all the costs involved, both health care and economic, then why so long?

I am concerned that an effect of this hearing could be to undermine technology that is critical to both protecting the environment and ensuring the success of the U.S. auto manufacturing industry.

So is it your testimony that these lithium-ion batteries that are used in the Volt are much safer than gasoline-powered cars with internal combustion engines?

It would be very bad, I think, for our economy to do anything that would try to demolish the potential for electric vehicles.

So it's your experience, then, that the manufacturing of the Volt will put America essentially on the map with respect to these electric vehicles; is that right?

It is all the more critical that they be able to raise their voices and demand change.

It is unprecedented to have all but two Members of the other party in the other body actually say, no, we don't care if we lost, we are going to thwart it anyhow.

I find it baffling that we are actually convening this morning's hearings to debate the merits of allowing Americans to use their public parks as a venue in which to express their First Amendment rights.

And if my Republican friends on this committee and in this body actually want to correct that, not by using you as the example, but by moving forward to correct that on a bipartisan basis, they would find this Democrat more than willing to…

The majority has leapt to investigate whether banks have been the victims of abuse from American citizens.

I am deeply concerned about the committee's failure to use its investigative power to protect American consumers or examine the numerous allegations of wrongdoing by banks.

That is not how the Constitution intended legislation to work.

This bill authorizes permanent warfare anywhere in the world. It gives the President unchecked power to pursue war. It diminishes the role of this Congress. The Founders saw article I, section 8 of the Constitution, which places in the…

FirstEnergy admitted that they knowingly made false representations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

May I ask how much time I have left. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio has 4\3/4\ minutes, and the gentlewoman from Florida has 2\1/2\ minutes.

Safety is the issue. I take it personally. This affects my State and my area.

I would ask how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio has 6 minutes remaining.

I hope we will reflect on the NRC's position here and help to achieve a culture of independence, objectivity, and public interest over corporate interest.

I yield myself an additional 5 minutes. One of the most troubling aspects of this legislation is, and it may be the area of the legislation that has not received much attention but it needs to have attention right now, and that is that…

The Congressional Quarterly House Action Report on this legislation states the following: that the measure, however, exempts such restrictions for assistance for the Bashir nuclear reactor in Iran which is being developed with the aid of…

I'm asking you, when you say this was amended out, it was amended out with respect to the citation of the Russian Federation----

It's time for the United States as a Nation to change its direction, to begin to see ourselves as a Nation among nations, not a Nation above nations, to begin to set aside war as an instrument of policy, to be sensitive to the power that…