Mr. Blumenauer, let me ask you this--and we've worked together on the Keystone XL issue--When people come to you and say that it's going to create all these jobs, we need jobs and they can get this oil, these tar sands to China if they…

Memphis borders Arkansas, and there was some kind of a pipeline problem over there recently. I think it might have been Exxon. They had a leak. That's kind of an expensive process. That's similar to the Keystone pipeline; isn't it? It…

I appreciate your bringing up the idea of the hottest year. In Memphis, it does occasionally get hot, but it also does in Washington. I think it's supposed to be 90 today. I suspect, and somebody is going to be able to prove me wrong, but…

Thank you. I appreciate your leadership on this issue and your scheduling this Special Order. Dr. James Hansen did retire. He is considered the foremost climatologist in the world. As I understand it, he shared in a Nobel Prize in 2007 on…

Tonight PBS and the Grammys will continue a series of concerts at the White House, and tonight's concert will feature Memphis soul. Memphis is a city known around the world for music, whether it's Sun Records and Elvis Presley and Sam…

People sometimes ask why we can't find common ground. There's an area we should be able to find common ground on--and we don't--and that's funding for the National Institutes of Health, which is going to be cut in the sequester by close to…

Thank you, Mr. Van Hollen. I appreciate the time. The thing that disturbs me the most about this budget is its inability to understand what our priorities should be. The Republican budget keeps the defense budget at $550 billion. There is…

The cures and the treatments are going to benefit the next generation and the generation after that more than this generation. This is a place where spending dollars creates jobs, saves lives, and benefits future generations. Most research…

The Ryan budget. In the words of the great Republican President, whom the Republicans like to remember: There they go again. It's the same budget. It's catering to the wealthy, and it's cutting the middle class. It's reducing the top tax…

The other day, it became public that Valerie Harper, the star of ``Rhoda,'' was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She publicly went forward with that, and it was very touching. I saw her on the morning news when she talked about it…

Yet as I learned about the FACT Act... the more readily I came to conclude that this legislation may be a solution in search of a problem.

The debate over the necessity to fully compensate victims of asbestos exposure is very personal to me.