The absence of significant mention by each of you in your testimony is troubling to me.

I am very, very concerned about what I see happening in Ohio.

The fine work of Congresswoman Candice Miller of Michigan in the WRDA Bill to look at the Great Lakes as a system is something that many of us, I mean we share.

I have been in Congress a long time, I have not had one good briefing and I have not read one report that really gives me any confidence we know what we're doing in terms of the movement of these live creatures.

we need an aggressive approach to this and we have to figure out what that is.

When we were out at Berkeley Livermore, Congresswoman Barbara Lee of Oakland joined us for some of those meetings.

I think, Congressman Fattah, through your leadership, things are beginning to bubble up inside the Department of Energy.

If the private sector had done such a good job, we wouldn't be importing $2.3 trillion.

Meanwhile there are those who suggest, well, the way--you know, you cut it out of seniors or you cut it out of hungry children, and some of us choose not to make those choices.

We still aren't, in my opinion, close to the finish line. We haven't--we are not at the goal.

we began to engage in a discussion about how the Department of Energy and its vast research resources might serve as an integrator of capabilities that could help improve life in some of the most forgotten corners of this country.

we are finding we share some similar challenges, including many places where there are nutrition-short communities in this abundant society.