Ron Wyden

Build America Bonds in a year and a half generated $180 billion worth of investment.

You have been a leader in trying to find ways to work across the aisle, to find a way to break the impasse.

You cannot have a Big League period of economic growth with Little League transportation systems

This is an urgent matter. These are not people who ought to get hammered. They have done nothing wrong.

As long as we keep passing them, I think it is going to be tough to get the long-term reform.

This is not a partisan issue; this is an abuse, a flagrant abuse, of the tax code.

This is something that is way wrong.

We have millions of people, these working-class, middle-class people, who are pinched.

I think some of my colleagues had a little bit of a taste of how outrageous this has gotten.

They do not want this to be the only measure of their education, but they want it to be one measure.

I appreciate the approach the Administration is talking about, and this, in my view, Mr. Secretary, would be a transformation of Federal education policy.

But it seems to me we are now moving in the direction of adding another component, and that is value.

About as good a value as we can get in this country.

Do not get rid of them. Do not divest them.

This scourge has been debated for it seems like longer than--a longer running debate than the Trojan War.

We want the Guard, whose work we support and admire, to have the tools.

This is a view that I very much share, and what is striking is outside the Senate--outside the Senate--security and economic thinkers, our leading thinkers of both political parties, say this is exactly the time for a long-term strategy.

I intend to fight it with whatever means I have at my disposal.

I think, makes a lot of sense and ought to be our philosophical underpinnings in this area.

We don't think that energy, and particularly natural gas, should be a partisan issue.

But it looks like you 3 souls have been willing to stay here as we got up and came back.

For the first time in decades, our Nation will be able to rely on its own U.S. energy resources.

Gas is 50 percent cleaner than other fossil fuels, and it is a major reason why American CO2 emissions have actually gone down in recent years.

I was telling Senator Murkowski I came to the U.S. Senate in 1996, the first new senator from Oregon in 30 years.

An affordable, stable gas supply provides a competitive advantage for American business that can spark a U.S. manufacturing renaissance.