I commend you for doing this, but I do not think some of your other colleagues who have equal challenge, particularly with the Recovery Act funds, have put in place this same kind of oversight.

At some point, in my mind, at least, it needs to be part of the discussion.

We think and they have shown that increased patient satisfaction, increased family satisfaction, and, on average, cost savings north of $5,000 per person.

I also believe, as I think you appropriately pointed out, should America move away from coal, India and China are not.

Is that kind of real-life examples factored into your analysis in terms of scoring costs?

Just to be clear again, so that if the Government came in with this recapitalization, they could then clear a secondary market of these securities.

I would just make a comment that we would never have had a wireless system in this country without some governmental entity setting the standards.

I think you are going to find a lot of these programs you are going to want to continue, and even my colleagues that might not have supported the Recovery Act, they are going to want to make sure, as I, that we have real accountability…

I for one think, you know, these are projects that are ready to go, and with the appropriate risk assessment...

We may have policy differences. We may have, I think equally on both sides of the aisle, concerns about some of the deficits.

Let me share with you some of their thoughts. Regarding the Intelligence Committee's carefully crafted and limited liability provision, which is very similar to the provision in the bill currently before us, these three distinguished…

Mr. President, this is one of the most important subjects I have had the privilege of addressing in my 30-some years in the Senate. I and many others will rise in connection with this bill in support of the FISA Amendments Act. It is a…

Irrespective of one's opinion of the President's reliance on Article II authority to justify the TSP, those companies that assisted with the TSP did so in good faith and based upon the written-- I repeat: ``written representations''-- from…

These gentlemen said: [P]roviding this liability protection is critical to the Nation's security. They confirmed that the intelligence community cannot obtain the intelligence it needs without--I repeat, without--the assistance from these…

But I do wish to refer to the future. As noted earlier, the President has made his announcement this morning. But I would like to welcome him to this decisionmaking now to go to offshore drilling. I want to go back over the history of this…

Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, we are in the middle of an energy crisis, and the only way we're going to get out of it is to dramatically transform how this country does energy. That is what the Lieberman-Warner climate bill does--it takes on…

I first want to say this colleague worked very hard and very conscientiously. There are honest differences of opinion on this subject. Her State, which she is so proud to represent, is quite unique. It has been severely affected by what I…

I commend him. This debate has laid strong building blocks for the future. We have worked our way through the issues of the science. We have worked our way through how national security is linked to this subject. We have worked our way…

Having said this, I admit I came to the Advisory Board as a skeptic and I'm not sure some of the others didn't as well. After we listened to leaders of the scientific, business, and governmental communities, both I and my colleagues came…

So Mr. President, there again we have laid another building block, bringing to the attention of the American people their own security here at home, their own armed services who are called upon to address these problems now and in the…

I think the professional soldiers like McChrystal did their job. McChrystal used to come every morning that the Senate was in session, at 8 o'clock, and brief Senators in S. 407. A very fine officer. He has been in Iraq now--well, I don't…

I look upon this as being a very substantial contribution to this continuing debate on this very perplexing but essential subject to be continuously watched here in the United States of America, and the next Congress will take it up, and I…

Nevertheless, you omitted any reference to the fact that Congress has a hand. If you look at the amendment I have thrown in, the President of the United States, at any time he or she desires, can go in and change that. So it is not as if…

I have talked extensively with a wide range-- as you have--of the industrial individuals who represent nuclear plants today and are forthcoming. The chairman is quite correct. A number of these companies are planning to go ahead boldly and…

There was a slow roll. I immediately went back to consult with my leadership, and that is not the case. The reason for not going to amendments today seems to me to be a valid one; that is, a number of Senators wish to speak. The list is up…