Bernie Sanders

And Congress can amend the law.

We have 19 percent of our children living in poverty. That is the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.

I did not vote for the war in Iraq for a number of reasons, not least of which there was no mechanism to pay for that war.

I am familiar with it; it is a tremendous bill.

Senator Boxer, who has been a long-time champion of sustainable energy, and she wants to make a brief statement.

Not only is it not just for the Southwest, it is going to work in New England as well.

We are, with Senator Lautenberg and others, going to be introducing legislation which would call for incentives and tax credits for 10 million rooftops in this country to be able to have solar.

What he is saying that over a period of time we can produce 30 percent of the electricity that homes in America need from solar.

If States like New Jersey are acting, then the Federal Government must act, too.

If there is one point that I hope is made clear as a result of today's hearing, solar energy is no longer a fringe idea, it is mainstream.

In my view, we are on the cusp of an energy revolution, a revolution which ends the absurdity of the United States importing some $350 billion of foreign oil every single year.

This is clearly a win-win situation.

Let me also tell you that the stimulus package is playing a really good role in Vermont, putting people to work, doing just that.

I think that the evidence is pretty strong--and I want the Secretary to talk about this--that if you really want to make this country energy independent, probably the most cost-effective way is--going forward, is energy efficiency.

I agree with what the President has said, and I think you have said, that we are in a transformational moment.

What it is so important about that is, not only from a political--geopolitical point of view, but we create, over a period of years, millions of jobs, making our country energy independent and moving to energy efficiency and sustainable…

It is, to me, basically insane that we are importing, every single year, $350 billion worth of oil from abroad, when we are sitting on technologies that can make us energy independent and substantially cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.

It is not for sure that I will vote for that bill.

I think that almost everybody in this country -- some exceptions -- should have the right to choose between the private insurance company and a public plan. That's what I'm going to fight for.

I think that almost everybody in this country, some exceptions, should have the right to choose between the private insurance company and a public plan. That's what I'm going to fight for.

The time has come to afford all Americans equal protection under the law, to provide all Americans the dignity and respect they deserve.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (ENDA), of which I am a cosponsor, is not only an appropriate but a necessary step towards guaranteeing the civil rights of all Americans.

I think in Vermont, and I am sure in Philadelphia, most people do not think it makes a lot of sense every year to be spending hundreds of billions of dollars making the sheiks in Saudi Arabia a little bit richer.

If we invested those hundreds of billions of dollars in energy efficiency and sustainable energy in this country...

The job creation potential in energy efficiency is extraordinary.