Congress and the Administration should be focused on permanently fixing the leak, on cleaning up the gulf, and restoring the gulf coast economy.

And I'm interested in what you mentioned in your testimony today that would allow consumers to opt-out of tracking and behavioral--at a browser level, as opposed to website-by-website.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I wish to point out, again--and because I am quoting Elizabeth Warren, somehow there was an implication earlier that Republicans have a newfound affection for her, but she is someone whom the Democrats look to extensively when it comes to…

I do appreciate the effort that is being made by the Senator from Louisiana to assist small businesses around this country. Frankly, there are many provisions in this bill I think people on both sides agree with. I have, as a member of the…

As my colleague from Maine also noted earlier today, I think there is pretty broad opposition to this particular amendment, notwithstanding the support many of us have for the underlying bill. As I said before, there are tax incentives in…

I couldn't agree with him more that this amendment should not be adopted, should not be added to the small business bill. In fact, she is the rumored choice of the administration to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The…

I hope we will defeat this today because there is moral hazard associated with it. We want to do the right thing by small businesses. I have named several things small businesses are concerned about--cap and trade, more government…

As you know, the EPA is delaying that decision--I mentioned this to Secretary Vilsack when he was in a couple of weeks back, and what is USDA's role in that decision and how actively are you all advocating for getting the higher blends…

Would replacing that definition with the definition of the 2008 Farm Bill result in increased renewable energy production?

Do you believe that the EPA, if the EPA were to approve E15 that lenders would be more likely to participate in the program to provide financing to some of these cellulosic ethanol plants?

We thought the Farm Bill struck the balance and would like to see that applied more generally and obviously applied to the RFS.

I mean, obviously, those we are developing...

Do you believe that the definition of renewable biomass in the 2008 Farm Bill strikes the right balance between meeting our energy needs and also ensuring that we are managing our forests in a responsible manner?

The last Farm Bill, I think, was really good in terms of looking at energy issues, and the energy title in there has helped us advance in a lot of respects.

Yes, indeed, Madam Chair, and we look forward to working with you to promote even greater use of biofuels.

I think what this gentleman represents in terms of his view is completely contradictory to what the majority of my constituents and I am sure the majority of the constituents of the Senator from Wyoming would say with regard to how you…

454 days before the administration put forward this nominee, there have been 79 days since, and they are blaming Republicans for holding up this nominee--again, notwithstanding the fact that it was 454 days before they ever put it forward…

The problem they have is that 1.6 million people are employed by the British national health system, a huge employer in their country, so the economic impact, the political impact of making changes in that system is very difficult. That…

I would say to my friend from Arizona and to the leader that a cynic might also raise the issue of why it took the President 454 days to nominate Donald Berwick and then have a lot of his surrogates go on in front of the media and say: We…

It's critical that they be held to account for the environmental/economic damages caused by the ongoing oilspill in the Gulf.

We cannot lose sight that not only is this an economic and an environmental tragedy, but it's a human tragedy, first and foremost.

I think pipelines are going to play an important role in America's energy future, too.

Moving ethanol by pipeline would be cheaper, more efficient, and safer than moving the product by truck or rail.

It seems, to me at least, that what we're talking about here is whether or not we're going to depart from the light-touch Title I information services approach.