Why is Pennsylvania's Department allowing this highly contaminated fluid just to be put right into a creek?

So basically, if he had been running his water 30 years ago, he would have had exactly the same problem?

We have to take a look at those things because the upside risk is so substantial.

But if it was a newer facility, if you were looking at newer facility in Pennsylvania that had been designed specifically, we would find that all of these problems had been addressed?

I rise to share my deep concern that we are careening toward a shutdown of the government. Just a little more than 24 hours from now--tomorrow night--our government will shut down if this Chamber and the House Chamber cannot come together…

we have heard a lot of rhetoric on the floor of the Chamber today defending why air pollution is just fine, explaining why dismantling air pollution regulations is really in the interest of our economy and our families. Indeed, my…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Robyn Varner, have floor privileges for the remainder of the day. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I also wish to congratulate my colleague from New Hampshire. It is an extraordinary privilege to serve in this Chamber and it is a long tradition of the Chamber to utilize one's first speech or maiden speech as an opportunity to address…

why have so few executives at major institutions been prosecuted by the SEC or by the Department of Justice?

Thank you to the panel for your testimony and I just want to thank Chairman Reed for calling this conversation together.

I think there is just kind of a thirst for being smart about what we do.

Do you have any aspect of your efforts that is related to vampire electronics, that is, that so many of our electric appliances utilize energy when they are not in use

I have to say I am guilty of leaving my cell phone charger plugged in behind the dresser day in and day out, and I would love to have a version that shuts off when I unplug my phone.

But in terms of a lot of these technologies around saving energy, and a lot of them around greenhouse gases, and understanding kind of how for what we invest we get back, even if it has multiple dimensions, would be very helpful

I would love to echo the concern about the standards in which one standard really looks at, the LEED standard looks at energy conservation at the point and therefore discriminates against wood, where if you look at the life cycle of wood…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations: Calendar Nos. 69, 70, 71, and 72, and all nominations placed on the Secretary's desk in the Coast Guard and NOAA; that the…

We cannot allow the mistakes we made with mortgages over the last 10 years to drive us down the road.

Let us say we have a million people buying homes, and by increasing the down payment from 5 to 10 percent, we proceed to have 10 percent fewer families--or I think the range you had was 7 to 15, but I am taking kind of the center point.

So I was doing a little back-of-the-envelope number here, and I think you found in the vicinity of a 0.02-percent increase in the default rate.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for your testimony.

I am just concerned that given the light of the type of studies that have seen vast transfers of wealth to working Americans through home ownership, I mean, Mr. Kling, you may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:35 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at 10 a.m…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 29; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed…

rollcall votes in relation to amendments to the small business jobs bill are possible tomorrow. Senators will be notified when any votes are scheduled. ____________________

Working with the States in this matter is going to be critical to the success of the exchanges--a very valuable tool that will increase competition and make it easier for citizens to find a health care plan that suits their circumstances.