I think that, especially in rural areas, it is very important that every veteran know the benefits they are entitled to.

What we believe very strongly is that it is terribly important to have aggressive outreach; that there are many veterans who do not know what they are entitled to.

we applaud Senator Sanders for introducing this important and overdue legislation.

I want to make more progress and I look forward to working with you if there are any technical problems in the bill, to see how we can work that out.

I think clearly that is a miscarriage--a disservice to those veterans who are suffering from major physical problems.

Thank you very much.

I think we have got to be a lot more aggressive.

The lesson of the RGGI experience is plain and reassuring: cap-and-trade works.

It is critical that we increase our use of renewable energy and reduce our emissions.

I believe it is important for Federal agencies... to ensure that regulations relating to the public's health and safety... should be based on the best available science.

we need an additional $1 billion over the next 5 years just to keep our roads and bridges in the same poor shape they are in right now.

if you allow your infrastructure to deteriorate, year after year after year you don't put funding in it, you know what? It is going to get worse; probably will not get better.

the American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that we should be investing over $2 trillion in infrastructure.

Thank you for your strong advocacy for the stimulus package which I think is one of the most important pieces of legislation, for a dozen different reasons, that this Country has passed in a very, very long time.

it costs more money to rebuild a crumbling infrastructure than it does to simply maintain it.

we are seeing transportation technology that we don't have in the United States of America.

As we discuss the transportation infrastructure crisis in America, we cannot forget rural America.

I think obviously the American people have had it up to here with financial institutions in general.

Do you think taxpayers have a right to be a little bit upset about that?

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for allowing me to drop into this Committee of which I am not a member, and thank you also very much, Mr. Chairman, for cosponsorship of legislation that I have introduced which would put a cap on credit…

Are we looking at a form of three-piece-suit CEO corporate loan sharking here?

the incredible greed, recklessness, illegal behavior on the part of Wall Street has enraged the American people.

I get in my office--and I am sure Senator Whitehouse and every Senator gets--irate calls from taxpayers of this country...

I think one way that we can move forward... is to, in fact, put a cap on interest rates.

I am a strong proponent of solar thermal plants.