Senator Murkowski has said that for the last 10 years a remote community in Alaska has considered the idea of a small modular reactor.

I always thought the cure for that, though, was just to establish a rating system and say, like you do in football, there is Division 1, 2, and 3, and just tell the people of Tennessee, they are playing in Division 3, and they would very…

To avoid political correctness or the feeling of one part of the country having a view imposed on it.

There is no need to stop our efforts to clean up the air and move ahead with clean energy until we have a consensus on carbon.

The chairman has constructed this hearing around the future of energy.

I believe that the greatest untapped resource in our country probably is the amount of electricity we already have at night that is unused.

Federal means Washington meddling in that.

I think there is a difference between national and Federal. National to me means States getting together, doing things.

Forty-one Republicans have signed a letter saying, you know, we might filibuster this if you do not let us have some participation in making it a better bill.

Keep your mouth shut. You have no cards.

Lyndon Johnson I think wanted to avoid that in an even more controversial set of legislations.

Senator Byrd indicated in his testimony earlier this year that he thought that while there were abuses of the current rules, that the Senate could work under the current rules if the Leaders would just use them.

I would, but I will be glad, could I do it after they make their statements.

If we change things, as the Senator from New Mexico would propose, we would have two Houses of Representatives operated by a majority vote.

Now, it seems to me listening to what is being proposed here is to make the Senate permanently like it has been the last 18 months where the majority had enough votes to run over the minority and pass bills with no bipartisan support and…

The Majority Leader can bring up a motion. No motion to bring up an executive nomination requires 60 votes; it just requires 51.

So there was no Senator holding up those 64. It was the White House, and we do know who did that.

I have supported abolishing secret holds and will again and was one of ten Senators to write the conferees in 2006 in saying do what we voted to do.

But, under this bill, the Federal Government might decide what the premium might be.

The concern about solvency is important.

We ask that you once again provide funding to programs we believe are crucial for maintaining healthy and abundant bird populations throughout the United States.

We believe the Department's actions are suitably focused on all institutions.

I strongly support Secretary Duncan's proposed regulation on incentive compensation and believe that it will help reduce harmful incentives by recruiters.

More money for more of the same is hard to sell politically.

You really do not want Governors and Education Committee chairmen and the United States Senators to be figuring out a teacher evaluation system.