We have seen estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency that the current deficit of water and wastewater infrastructure in this country is $662 billion.

As I understand it, this bill does nothing to interfere with the military's selection of the appropriate--the most appropriate fuel, to carry out its mission.

One of the reasons I mention that... is that we have a very severe unemployment problem and at the same time a water and wastewater deficit.

the missions that our military will have to address will be more dangerous, more frequent, more widespread, if we cannot control our climate.

It is my understanding that those dispatch rule do not take the environmental costs of the units into consideration whatsoever.

everyone in America should have a stake in legislation that can transform our energy system into one that is far more efficient, far cleaner and provides energy independence for America.

For many years, corporate polluters in the Midwest have been ducking and dodging around the Clean Air Act.

Let's work together on making sure we do that.

Rhode Islanders and Americans across our Nation acutely understand the benefits of becoming the world's leader in clean energy technology and the risks of failing in that endeavor.

I would urge that as you look at the nuclear component of our energy portfolio, you invest aggressively in potential technologies that could take our existing nuclear waste and reconfigure it into fuel and turn it into value.

Americans are brought together by our common understanding that our current fossil fuel energy habit is not sustainable.

I believe the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act, introduced by Chairman Whitehouse, would help families like mine recover from medically-based financial hardship.

As we in Congress continue working on broad legislation to reform our broken health care system and ensure accessible, affordable health insurance for all Americans, we take advantage of this hearing today to examine a particularly cruel…

Families who think they are protected may be only one accident, one injury or one diagnosis away from family bankruptcy.

It would waive the means test and credit counseling requirements, which are unnecessary, time-consuming, costly, even humiliating for debtors forced to file by medical misfortune.

There is nobody you could go to and say, 'Listen, you do not understand.'

The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would change that.

But you have no choice. You still have to----

It is a terrific and unjustified government intrusion, I believe, at the behest of the credit card industry.

I look at the credit card industry as having been behind the bankruptcy reform and that its primary purpose was to keep people harassed longer before they could get into bankruptcy.

The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would give medical debtors across the country a fighting chance to save their homes.

94 percent of metropolitan areas have a health insurance market that is highly concentrated.

In nine States, a single insurer controls at least 75 percent of the market.

In 39 States, two health insurers control at least half of the market.

Just sort of a basic element of plain old fair play, isn't it?