I will invite you to come to Vermont with me some time, not today. We are having about 20 inches of snow, and it is so bad that some of the schools will open an hour late tomorrow with that kind of snow.

The EB-5 program has been extremely helpful to us. We used to adjudicate applications within 6 months. It is now taking 12 to 14 months, which really cripples the program.

Canada is our biggest trading partner. It's a very long border.

It has become really worrisome, and I know a lot of these people--businesspeople in Vermont and others, and people who are tourists, members of my own family, who suddenly will sit there for 2 hours to go across the border, but they are…

Cybersecurity I think is very important.

The sweeping immigration reform legislation will help unite families, boost the economy, and bring millions out of the shadows and into our legal immigration system.

The recovery in Galena is as important to me like the recovery from Katrina and Rita is to Senator Landrieu.

I have enjoyed the times we have met and talked, including today when you talked about Barry Goldwater.

Can you assure me that as you fill these positions, attention will be given to the northern border?

Let me go to Director Nisbet. You mentioned if spring ever comes.

nearly 30 years ago, I joined a good friend, the late Hub Vogelmann, along with a Republican Congressman, a Democratic Governor, and President Reagan's EPA Administrator, on a hike to the summit of Vermont's iconic peak, Camel's Hump. We…

It is an area where I believe we can find common ground and should move forward with it.

The American public is served only if it knows what its Government is doing and why.

I am frustrated with the legal argument that the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission made in a recent FOIA case.

in the last few weeks, we have wasted precious floor time and energy to overcome filibusters on several judicial nominations. The majority leader was forced to file cloture on judicial nominees in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Puerto…

it was just one year ago last week that victims of violence, members of law enforcement and those committed to working against domestic and sexual violence celebrated the signing of the Leahy-Crapo Violence Against Women Act…

I will continue to work so they get the tools and the resources necessary.

To be serious--I was serious about that, but to be serious, we are considering a legislative proposal to make OGIS more independent.

But the Attorney General's Guidelines say they will not defend an agency's decision to deny a FOIA request unless it would cause a foreseeable harm.

I expect that we will hear about some of the changes in technology that are taking place to make the FOIA process better.

I commend the guidelines. As I said before, they restore the presumption of openness.

I think that is a real accomplishment in the politicized world that Washington is today.

I believe you need more staff to carry this out, because I think--again, I do not care whether you have a Republican or Democratic administration.

I worry that they get undermined by the growing use of FOIA exemptions.

I am concerned that the growing trend toward relying upon FOIA exemptions to withhold large swaths of Government information is hindering the public's right to know.