I look forward to working with members of Congress to devise a cost sharing arrangement that is both fair and reasonable.

We have got to find a way to get both into the budget.

Of course, Senator Bond and I have the privilege of not being within departmental guidelines and we can do what we want to do.

It is going to destroy agriculture in some part of this country--I mean, we are going to see our apple orchards disappear.

It has caused the steepest decline in North American wildlife in the past century and has killed more than 1 million bats in the last 4 years.

Will you kindly nudge everybody to keep this moving?

I fought hard for that funding, and the results are being felt.

I am glad to see in the budget request that you put us on track to fully fund the LWCF by 2014.

as with so many other nominations before the Senate, Justice Keenan has waited an extraordinary amount of time to be confirmed. Her nomination was reported without dissent by the Judiciary Committee more than 4 months ago. The…

on a happier note, I see the distinguished Senator from Vermont, Senator Sanders, on the floor today. I want to congratulate the Vermonters who represented our country at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Olympics themselves were…

I would urge accelerating whatever you are doing because it is basically an epidemic.

The last 2 years have demonstrated that that is simply not true.

I want to commend Google again for announcing that they plan to stop censoring their Chinese search engine.

I want to commend these three companies for their extraordinary leadership in promoting Internet freedom.

Thanks to the opposition from the U.S. Government and companies, the Chinese Government eventually backed down.

The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning of statutes. The legal memoranda were…

The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning of statutes. The legal memoranda were…

I am going to use every power I have to defend this country.

The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning of statutes. The legal memoranda were…

I wanted to take it out of politics, have been something like the 9/11 Commission look into it.

The torture of individuals was not just a violation of our laws and treaties; it handed al Qaeda a valuable propaganda tool to gain new recruits.

Without question, our Government institutions were undermined. The rule of law was disrespected.

We should never, ever forget our basic values.

The President and the Attorney General should bring the investigation of these CIA personnel who relied in good faith on this legal advice to a close immediately.

Mr. Comey also said that the Attorney General, who is now Alberto Gonzales, was under great pressure from the Vice President to issue these memos.