let me begin by making a few points about which there is not a whole lot of disagreement. First, the United States today is in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. Over 16 percent of working age Americans are…

As I hear you, your fear is that large numbers of students lured into for-profit institutions by sophisticated marketing are misleading claims.

For the rest of their lives, people are going to be carrying around tens and tens and tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

I'm almost thinking that maybe these for-profit institutions might put the side effects that you're talking about?

Adrian Keyser is one of more than 200 people who applied for eight licensed nursing assistant positions at Burlington's Fletcher Allen Health Care earlier this month. She has been unemployed since November. Eight jobs, 200 people applying…

In 2000 Libby was declared a Superfund site. In 2009 Administrator Jackson declared a long delayed public health emergency in Libby.

I have encouraged them to keep a copy of Les' photograph as well just as a reminder not just of the people of Libby but also a reminder of ordinary folks who have been faced with such pollution.

I promised myself at that moment that I am not going to let Les down, like whatever I do in life, I have got to make sure that the people of Libby get justice for this travesty that has been imposed upon them.

At a time when we have a recordbreaking $13 trillion national debt and an unsustainable Federal deficit, at a time when two out of every three corporations in America paid no Federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, at a time when…

this country has a $13 trillion national debt and a record-breaking deficit, and it is time we began to address that issue. This country has the potential now to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, away from offshore…

Allow me to finish my remarks. This is where we are. Where we are right now is a moment at which we either go forward or not, be serious or not. We hear day after day concerns about the deficit. What we know is the oil industry, year after…

the issue of abusive corporate tax breaks has even gotten the attention of Forbes Magazine, which reported on April 1, 2010--this is Forbes Magazine--Forbes 500, dynamic capitalism, Forbes Magazine, and this is what they say on April 1…

I am not a liberal but a progressive. Sometime we will talk about the difference. Mr. President, I did not vote for the $3 trillion war in Iraq. I did not vote for the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks. I did not vote for the…

what we are talking about now is beginning to address the deficit issue in a significant way, and $25 billion over a 10-year period is a good start. I think we cannot continue to have people coming down to the floor of the Senate and…

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Would I be right in assuming that if we create all kinds of demand all over this country that you are going to see efficiencies of scale and installation in terms of driving down prices for solar?

I put my money on the sun and solar energy, what a source of power. I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

The price of photovoltaics are going way down. I think there is an argument right now that in terms of concentrated solar, large utility-size solar projects, in terms of producing energy, they are competitive or cheaper, I should say, than…

As you know, because we have worked with DOE on technical feedback for this legislation, our bill authorizes $250 million for the first year as a down payment of sorts toward fully funding this program over 10 years.

Your willingness to take the lead in supporting and encouraging the growing solar industry, and the vision you have shown in crafting this legislation, serve as models for other legislators in Congress.

I rise in strong opposition to the Murkowski resolution which, sadly, is sponsored by virtually the entire Republican caucus, which would overturn EPA's endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas emissions pose a…

These oil companies used tobacco industry lobbyists and tactics to cast doubt on global warming science. What this is about is, if our Nation is to prosper, if we are to create the millions of jobs we desperately need, we have to have…

at a time when the profits of big oil companies are soaring, at a time when we are in the midst of a horrendous and huge oilspill on the gulf coast, at a time when we desperately need to end our dependence on oil and gas and significantly…

This amendment helps us lower the record-breaking deficit this country is facing, and this amendment will help us transform our energy system away from fossil fuel--away from the oil disaster that we are seeing in the gulf right now--to…

ExxonMobil is the same huge oil company that has had enough money to provide a $398 million retirement package to its outgoing CEO, Lee Raymond, just a few years ago. They made more money than any corporation in the history of the world…