I think as we seek to encourage more States to be aggressive in this area having those type of metrics will help people get their hands around it.

Thank you both for your testimony.

Indeed, the ability to continue aging in place has been a huge emphasis in Oregon.

Well, I think that safe harbor might be something we should explore if we do not feel like it is satisfactory.

If it was a coherent, single test, it might be an additional tool, making this easier for employers.

They said almost always that is going to be wrong. So start with the presumption and then run through the test.

In addition to the oil being pushed inland, there has been some discussion of the fact that a major storm could pick up some of the oil and re-dump it inland.

this debate is not about the overreach of an agency because indeed this Congress charged EPA with responding to threats to our atmosphere that endanger the public health of our citizens. We asked them to do that because we know that if it…

today I rise in opposition to the resolution before us from my colleague from Alaska. Since 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency has been charged with responding to and identifying threats to our atmosphere, threats that affect public…

This is not all right for Wall Street, and it certainly isn't all right for oil drilling.

Oregon set in motion an experiment in the 1970s where we put an urban growth boundary around each of our urban settings.

Is it OK to drill 70 miles off the Oregon coast? The answer is no.

We have come together, all six of us, and proposed not a moratorium but a permanent ban on drilling off the Pacific Coast.

I rise to discuss a huge challenge in the State of Oregon--specifically, a drought that is affecting the southern Klamath Basin. This is an area that had a terrible drought in 1992. This drought set everyone in this basin against each…

I would greatly appreciate the unanimous consent to modify my amendment. There should be no party line when it comes to addressing a federally declared disaster.

This is an amendment that addresses the terrible drought we have in southern Oregon. Of course, we are addressing many natural disasters, and we have a natural disaster, a federally declared natural disaster in Oregon, in which we have…

I rise today to propose legislation to address the problem of medical debt and credit scores. While historic health reform legislation enacted this year sets us on a path towards ending the crushing problem of Americans who lack health…

I rise today to discuss the Comprehensive Problem Gambling Act, a bill I introduced just moments ago with Senator Mike Johanns. This bill would establish and implement programs targeted at preventing, treating, and researching problem…

Should we also be talking about investment in parents, more investment in parent education?

The gentleman is correct that we would expect the Federal Reserve Board, and, in time, the bureau, to exempt any mortgage insurance premiums that are required to be paid after closing that might otherwise be covered, consistent with the…

The purpose of the amendment is to ensure that consumers are sold loans that they are able to repay. The authority granted to the agency to prescribe rules establishing other criteria--and to ``revise, add to, or subtract from'' the…

we are coming to the end of a long path of consideration of fundamental financial reforms. A key piece of the discussion along that trail has been whether we are going to modify the way securities operate, how high-risk investment pools…

I think it would be useful if the citizens of our Nation were to know who was objecting and that the names be read into the Record. I think the citizens have a right to know where their Senators stand on this issue. It is an ideal time to…

I do think the citizens of our Nation deserve an explanation as to why we are here tonight and not currently debating any of a whole list of amendments that Members of this body wanted to bring forward about how we improve our financial…

today, we have two amendments that address integrity in retail mortgage origination. I am certainly encouraging you to place your vote squarely for the Merkley-Klobuchar amendment. This amendment is critical to end no-document liar…