Jack Reed

Since 1940, the Congress has recognized that men and women in the service of the United States deserve special protections.

This protection is not offered to a widow of someone who dies on active service.

I want to commend you for all your efforts to assist veterans.

The proposal that I am making advances several, I think, important improvements.

I have an amendment at the desk, and I ask unanimous consent to consider the amendment out of order. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to considering the amendment at this point? Hearing none, the Clerk will report the amendment. The…

I note the majority leader has appeared on the floor and I believe he has a procedural motion. I yield to him. Order of Procedure

When did you know? When were you aware of it? Could you have anticipated it?

For a nonfinancial company, you could be doing hedging as an end user, but you could also be very aggressive in your hedging.

I think it is really incumbent upon the regulators to figure out how to write a rule that allows legitimate hedging to go forward as it needs to, but it must be really, genuinely risk-mitigating hedging, and not anything people want to do…

Today, I welcome to the House Chamber a great individual from our district, Pastor Ken Chroniger. Pastor Ken is the spiritual leader of 70 in my district in Alfred Station, New York, for the Seventh Day Baptist Church there. It is an honor…

That is, we've had an environmental education program through EPA for many, many years.

Well, you know, that was my presumption too. So I think if you could clarify that, that would be helpful to us.

On April 13, the President issued an Executive order to align all current and future research which, again, I think we all say is absolutely necessary for the protection of the public, made up of 13 Federal agencies.

I think we all recognize, and it's explicit in the comments, that we don't want to trade access to the very valuable petroleum and carbon resources at the cost of degraded water supplies and environmental problems.

I've received letters from the directors of nine State environmental agencies, and I think Senator Murkowski and others have received the letters.

The bottom line is that this transfer requires a State match.

We have to monitor a lot of air that comes from the Midwest.

Their fear is obviously that this fund is locked in.

I particularly appreciate your message that environmental protection is not only compatible, but it is, in fact, essential for the economic growth and well-being of our Nation.

It's hard to address environmental challenges when our economy is strong, let alone when our current fiscal situation is challenging.

On behalf of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, I'd like to welcome everyone to our hearing on the fiscal year 2013 budget request for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The second a foreclosure sign goes up on your block, your home value drops by as much as $10,000.

That is what these proposals are about.

We cannot walk away from ours.

Let me personally commend Senator Menendez for his very, very thoughtful proposal.