Ron Wyden

We have seen billions of dollars go into this. You have now got the project director saying that there is a potentially devastating safety issue, and he has just been transferred after reporting this.

We also are very concerned in our part of the world about eliminating the National Energy Technology Lab in Albany which, I think, is doing singularly good work.

I told the Bush Administration, George W. Bush, his folks, that Bonneville was not going to get sold off on my watch and it is not going to get sold off now either.

You've told us now you're not going to do anything illegal. That's a plus.

I hope members will support what Senator Heinrich and I are calling for with respect to declassification.

I am quite certain that Teddy Roosevelt would not be here defending the virtual elimination of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Would Teddy Roosevelt be sitting where you are today, advocating the virtual elimination of the Land and Water Conservation Fund?

You proposed opening America's precious coast to offshore oil drilling.

When you sell off or exploit your public lands, you don't get them back.

With his signature he created the Crater Lake National Park and it is the deepest lake in the United States, known for its beautiful blue water.

I hope that this committee will soon hold hearings on the administration's many trade activities--including the steel and aluminum investigations and potential tariffs, the NAFTA renegotiations, and the investigation of China under section…

CBP would attempt to accelerate this review, if possible.

Could you furnish in writing to the chairman and me your thoughts of what might be a set of penalties that would ensure that this was not just, in effect, the cost of doing business?

Would you recommend to the chairman and me that, as part of this effort, we beef up the penalties?

I think the priorities are way out of whack when you have twice as many people in this area where the evidence shows that illegal activity is going down.

Can we have a commitment today that you will lay out for us what it is you are prepared to do in terms of this authority?

We have been having this conversation for what feels like a longer-running battle than the Trojan War.

The rip-off artists, the counterfeiters, are trying to undercut the American brand. So this is really high-stakes stuff.

So that is good to finally have that on the record.

The Internet is now the shipping lane of the 21st century.

I hope this committee will soon hold hearings on the Trump administration's varied and sundry trade activities.

This year of uncertainty... has real consequences for American workers and American families, and they deserve better.

The President has inflicted a punishing year of uncertainty on the American economy.

I certainly don't agree with his judgment about the past election. For example, the intelligence community has said they didn't look at influence operations by the Russians.

Certainly Bob Mueller works on the criminal side. We work on the civil side. It's our job to tell the American people what happened with respect to Mr. Torshin and the NRA, for example, if these reports are true.