"Thank you, Madame Chair. I want to say how pleasurable it is to refer to you as Madame Chair."
"For Senator Merkley and I, we take special pride in this nominee."
"This ought to be a priority for good government. These abuses are completely out of hand."
"Maybe we can persuade some of them to do a Conrad."
"I want to say a good word about Russ Sullivan."
"Senator Grassley and I have introduced legislation that would open up the Medicare database so that the public, free of charge, could have that information."
"Oregon wanted to build the next step, and to face this kind of discrimination literally for doing a good job... does not make any sense."
"I often kid and say it is not an energy speech unless you say you are for all of the above three or four times."
"I do not see how we improve, number one, the investment climate for the kinds of important programs you are talking about if we do not have a more permanent and level kind of playing field."
"One of the things that I would offer is that the portfolio will shift in terms of mix, so as a practical matter I think it is great that we have natural gas and an expectation that the costs will be l..."
"The Senate Finance Committee, earlier this year, I think made the correct call in terms of trying to start this debate."