Ron Wyden

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:33 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, December 20, 2011, at…

I consider that one of the areas where the administration needs to have a much more vigorous approach.

At what price is the Department going to conclude that the impact on our consumers and our businesses is not going to be in the public interest?

I want to see the administration put more of a focus on the question of energy affordability and energy sources being affordable for our people at a time when they are just getting hit so hard in the economy.

I ask to speak in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I think policymakers ought to be doing what Chairman Bingaman and Senator Murkowski are doing here today which is try to get the facts.

If the prices continue, if they increase to match international prices, it's going to be that much harder for families to heat their home, the businesses to compete with each other and the Nation.

One quick note about and I think it's actually worth me making this comment because the slide was actually put up by Senator Wyden.

Obviously my State disagrees strongly with your views.

Less than 2 years ago your agency approved the Jordan Cove LNG import terminal in Coos Bay over the objections then of the State of Oregon.

Exports in the United States are going to make natural gas like the oil market. That's why I'm concerned about what these price hikes could mean for our businesses and our consumers.

First, I've been a strong supporter of natural gas. Will continue to be.

I want to get into a little different area, gentlemen. I come to this debate really with 2, sort of, fundamental principles.

What I would like to suggest is that, on a bipartisan basis, we look at the idea of reforming the unemployment system to give those who are qualified to do so the opportunity to get off the treadmill.

We know today that a lot of lost jobs aren't coming back, and we have to start with that basic understanding.

I particularly appreciate the way you, Mr. Chairman, and others are looking at trying to find a bipartisan way to make some changes in the unemployment system to provide more opportunities for our workers, folks that are hurting, to get…

I was struck by Senator Murkowski's, you know, point with respect to information sharing...

My sense is that the Federal Government, because the Federal Government owns oil shale lands and gas shale lands, would be a very good place to try to bring together all of the stakeholders.

I rise in opposition to the Hatch amendment. In a time of surging Chinese imports, high unemployment, and widespread economic pain, the Hatch amendment would make it harder for workers, companies, and farmers to obtain trade adjustment…

The point of classifying documents is to protect national security. And often it seems that documents are classified to protect somebody's political security.

It often seems that just plain old bureaucratic inertia gets in the way of declassifying documents that the public really has a right to know.

Would the Senator yield for a unanimous consent request? Because 5 o'clock is coming.

If you're confirmed can you get back to me within say 60 days particularly on the area of the technology, storage technology, that the agency has refused to approve, the grid controlled water heaters?

The policy purpose behind them as I understand is to help protect and defend American industry and jobs.

I want to see this morning from the two of you, Dr. Danielson and Mr. Woods, is a commitment that the Department of Energy both on a policy basis and a legal basis is going to take a more realistic look at helping America energy equipment…