The biggest challenge that we face in biofuels is what I call marketplace expansion.

So my message to your committee, Senator Bingaman, to the Congress, and to the American people, is not a message of doom and gloom about our continuing dependence on oil.

I would like to briefly address the intelligence authorization bill for fiscal year 2011, which has now been reported by the Intelligence Committee. I filed additional views to the committee report accompanying the bill, and my remarks…

recently, the president of the University of Oregon, Richard Lariviere, came to meet with me in my office. The University of Oregon is my law school alma mater, and I was commiserating with President Lariviere about the Ducks' narrow loss…

this is far from the first time I have spoken in this Chamber about the importance of providing hospice benefits and those workers who help provide them tirelessly every day. Today I'm pleased to introduce legislation to strengthen the…

I rise today to introduce the U.S. Outdoor Act. In the Pacific Northwest, spending time in the great outdoors is a part of life. Our magnificent mountains, our clear rivers and streams, and our majestic forests provide for a quality of…

But I think we recognize--and this is why the legislation today is so important--that there is much more to be done.

This gives us a chance--particularly with Senator Murkowski's leadership generally--in water-power technologies to really make a difference.

So, the opportunity to promote clean power generation and create domestic jobs, while at the same time addressing environmental safeguards.

I don't think that passes the smell test. I just think we've got to turn this around.

It's going to allow us to tap, in effect, untapped energy from water on its way to the kitchen tap that's now being wasted.

I am honored to join my colleague from Wyoming, Senator John Barrasso, in introducing a bill essential to enhancing the delivery of mental health services to our senior citizens, The Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2011. We…

today I rise to introduce Wilderness legislation to protect two of Oregon's natural treasures. This bill is a reintroduction of legislation that I introduced in the last Congress and I am pleased that Senator Merkley is again joining me in…

I am pleased to join today with my partner, Senator Cornyn, to reintroduce the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act. This bi-partisan legislation, which was approved unanimously by the Senate in the 111th…

An intrinsic flaw of the ACA is that it fails to unleash the potential of States to innovate in designing reforms that respond to their own unique circumstances.

I applaud the efforts of Senators Wyden and Brown, I must point out that the bill is woefully insufficient in terms of granting States meaningful flexibility.

An intrinsic flaw of the PPACA is that it fails to unleash the potential of States to innovate in designing reforms that respond to their own unique circumstances.

I think the Chinese have taken this to a very different, you know, level, particularly the speed with which they move to protect rare Earth minerals.

It is absolutely outrageous that the Chinese have said again and again that they would not engage in these practices indigenous innovation and these others that are just blatant, you know, protectionism.

Their unwillingness to move on the procurement issue is going to harm our relationship. I want to see that change. I'm going to press hard to do it.

We've actually seen it in one of our portfolio companies called Solar Power we recently received a $197 million loan guarantee to site a major manufacturing facility actually in Senator Wyden's State in Oregon.

Last year, I was disappointed to hear that some members of the Oregon National Guard who were demobilizing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, JBLM, were not given access to all of the medical treatment to which they were entitled. Further, a…

my state of Oregon is blessed with a tremendous number of generous and philanthropic individuals. But I would like to take a moment today to single out one of them and recognize her years of dedication to helping others. Vickie Beaver of…

today I rise to introduce the Wireless Tax Fairness Act and I am delighted and honored to be joined in this effort by Senators Snowe, Gillibrand, Ensign, Menendez, McCain, Burr, and Senator Nelson from Florida. I want to start with an…

the sacrifices of military families all too often go unrecognized. For every one of the 186,000 troops currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a family that patiently waits for their servicemember's safe return. There are…