George Voinovich

The EPA's budget is woefully inadequate to take care of the nation's pressing water and wastewater infrastructure needs.

This year is no exception--the EPA's budget is woefully inadequate to take care of the nation's pressing water and wastewater infrastructure needs.

The 4 percent increase in spending is a good start down a fiscally responsible path.

Unfortunately, as is often the case around here, responsibility often gives way to rhetoric.

I take our oversight responsibilities very seriously.

Putting together a budget is a process that requires responsible prioritizing and fiscal discipline.

I have introduced legislation every year to increase that to $15 billion over 5 years, and to give the States more flexibility.

If you are not going to be able to provide the money to the communities that are a result of mandates coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency, it seems to me that some consideration ought to be made to cities like Akron and…

Unfortunately, as is often the case around here, responsibility often gives way to rhetoric.

I take our oversight responsibilities very seriously.

It is no wonder that the trial lawyers have been desperately trying to kill the bill.

This language serves an important function: it builds in an incentive for project sponsors to incorporate environmentally protective measures into a project from the beginning in order to support a finding of de minimis impact. Obviously…

Mr. Kay clearly believes that removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right thing to do. It is in this context that I would like to take this opportunity to share with my colleagues an interview that Mr. Kay gave yesterday morning, in…

I have traveled to New York and met with these workers and the United States government owes them their due in compensation.

I believe these men and women have paid a high price for our freedom, and in their time of need, this nation has a moral obligation to provide some financial and medical assistance to these Cold War veterans.

The United States of America has an enormous amount on its plate, and I think we need to get our European friends involved in this too.

Do people like Putin understand that these organizations present a threat--the question is, does he have a relationship with them or does he look at them as undermining his leadership and what he wants to achieve in the Russian Federation?

Just for the record, we have all agreed that international crime organizations are increasing their business here in the United States, it's becoming more pervasive.

So basically, he realizes that organized crime is not good?

If I was going to go to an OSCE meeting and start talking to some of my colleagues, the effort that we're making in some of those countries through our embassies would probably be a benchmark.

It's hostile because the terrorists want to take over the government in a kind of political way.

This could even escalate the issue of terrorism because the criminals know how to make money.

We are ignoring the, or not ignoring but not putting as many resources into dealing with the organized crime issue.

Somebody has to be the orchestra leader or someone must call attention to this.

So, I was impressed with, for example in the Ukraine, the coordination that goes on by the State Department through their embassy.