"I will work with my colleagues and I know they feel the same."
"I don't want it to obscure some of the things that TVA has been doing lately that I applaud."
"I asked to rejoin the committee so that I could support the Conrad-Gregg effort to find some process by which we could restrain spending on entitlements in the future."
"I think the entitlement issue, though, is more of a process problem than a policy problem. We have got to find a way to force ourselves to deal with restraining growth in such important programs."
"My instinct is this, that if you are going to try to restrain a system that is growing at a rate as big as the medical system in this country is, taking 18 percent of GDP, that is such a big change th..."
"We might be able to electrify as much as half our fleet over the next 20 years."
"In the spirit of turning this from an environmental disaster into a long-term technology opportunity, I want to ask you..."
"I am one Senator who wants to deal with climate change and have introduced legislation that would put a cap and trade system only on power plants."
"I was Education Secretary when the direct loan program started. I didn't think it was a good idea then and I don't today."
"The Republican Leader has said he is ready to go to work on that, starting with Social Security and then I believe we should do health care this year."
"If I am not mistaken, TVA has recently asked or said it would ask for 2,000 megawatts of renewable energy."