I don't want to hear this joint responsibility that 'they were supposed to do it, and we could have done it, but nobody did it.'

We'd like to compliment the public health people in Tennessee.

At a time when we are struggling to help our economy grow, it's important to manage our infrastructure in a way that makes it easier and cheaper for Americans to run their businesses.

I would say if the FDA had the authority, it should jerk the ability of Massachusetts to deal with these sorts of entities at least until Massachusetts cleaned up its act.

I wouldn't trust the FDA more than I would trust the Tennessee Department of Public Health to keep our medicines safe.

I hope it's our first order of business to answer these questions, not just whose job was it to prevent this tragedy, but whose job will it be to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Any WRDA bill that Congress considers must address the issue that Olmstead Lock is consuming the vast majority of the nation's lock funding.

I would like to see, though, some consistency of the standards applied.

The individual State board of pharmacy makes a decision as to what is needed and how it needs to be regulated to protect the citizens within their State.

I think the first thing we can do to make it easier to afford college is to stop ordering States to spend a certain amount on healthcare.

I don't like maintenance of effort. I'm opposed to one for higher education.

Mr. President, this is squeezing--Medicaid is going to squeeze everything out of our budget, and I won't be able to afford to fund higher education properly.

It's my privilege to welcome John Morgan here.

It's the maintenance of effort for Medicaid that has gotten higher education into the mess it's in today, in my judgment.

Would you agree that it would be, do you agree with that recommendation to move along parallel tracks?

I am trying to evaluate the effect of government policy on nuclear power of the government subsidies of wind power, for example.

The lessons that we received in Sweden and Germany are instructive to us.

My view is that the more the American people hear about and know about nuclear power, the more confident they will be in the system that we have.

Would you agree with me that--or with many--that whether you are for or against Yucca Mountain, that we need to move forward as rapidly as we responsibly can to identify a repository for used nuclear fuel?

The production of energy by nuclear power has been our safest method of energy production, but it is complex.

Can you assure me that the money that we allocated for the small modular reactor program will be used for that purpose and not some other purpose?

in our Constitutional 10th Amendment Federal system of government, states have a right to be wrong.

the two biggest problems here are, one, that we spend money we don't have, and two is that we make a lot of decisions here that ought to be made at home by families, communities, and states.

There are a lot of Republican members here. Let me just ask one question of Mr. Peterson, who has been involved a while.

The way I read the Quill decision, it says the following. The Supreme Court decision said 20 years ago it was too complicated to allow states to require out-of-state sellers to do the same thing in-state sellers do.