If you extend the Bush strategy, I believe, on the trajectory that it was launched on, it drives you to a civil liberties collision that is unnecessary and I think unhelpful.

I have known and worked with Cynthia for many years and have seen first-hand her leadership in the Ocean State on many critical environmental issues.

Thank you for holding this important hearing today to consider the nomination of these three very well qualified individuals to fill key positions over at EPA.

Her broad experience and success in protecting human health, the environment and effective environmental enforcement is evident.

The United States, the water quality here, is the envy of the world.

When you are talking about the waste associated with water use, it is hard to overlook the extraordinary waste of energy and oil and everything associated with bottle water.

I would ask your assurance to all of us that in that balance you will be pressing your organization to push upward as far as the facts and the law will drive.

High-interest-rate debt is financial quicksand for consumers.

American consumers are relying more than ever on credit cards to just make ends meet from month to month.

This makes me think that we need to really look at substantive regulation.

We have lots of disclosure, but we really have obfuscation by disclosure.

The standard credit card agreement gives the lender the power to bleed their customers through evolving and ever more crafty tricks and traps.