Patrick Leahy

The REAP Zone has helped. It has helped fire departments. It has helped people buy their first homes.

One of my top conservation priorities in this was the Regional Equity provisions.

Let’s do legislation. Let's not do talking points. Let's do legislation.

Considering the corruption and other problems in Honduras, I would hope that you and your department would put very strict controls because otherwise, we could have real problems.

I always worry when things are suddenly classified, and I realize that a lot of things should be, but sometimes things are classified because they do not stand the light of day.

I think we have seen it all over the country. Demand for treatment has skyrocketed.

We are concerned because anytime you put a new opiate on the street--we all remember the days of Oxycontin.

I am always worried about whether legislation steps on States' rights and what they might be doing.

I would hope also the manufacturer would start cooperating with you; otherwise, they face the potential for backlash from Congress.

I also sent last year a letter regarding the counternarcotics operation in Honduras in 2012 that killed four civilians, including a 14-year-old boy.

I think they could fundamentally change the nature of the Army we know.

In 1996, I voted against the Telecommunications Act in part because of concerns I had about the lack of competition in the cable TV market.

Frankly, every one of us wants to find out the same things.

Consumers deserve to know how the combination of the two largest companies in the industry will impact them.

We must have the courage to act before it is too late and make historic investments in resilience to climate change.

For example, the grants to States for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund has been cut by $431 million.

The need has never been greater than what it is going to be in 2016.

A lot of these efforts cost money. The EPA budget seems to be a more and more bare bones request each year.

I would hope the EPA would support a larger funding request for the Lake Champlain Geographic Program in 2016.

Administrator McCarthy, thank you for taking on one of the most important and challenging jobs in the United States.

We absolutely need it. It is one of the things we do not ever want to get into the position, for example, that Lake Erie did decades ago.

Thank you for your testimony regarding the Department's work to improve the safe operation of rail cars carrying crude oil and other hazardous materials on our rail systems.

Here we are, the most powerful Nation on earth, and we act as if we are afraid of a tiny island country.

If we did not have our embargo, you would have so many American companies down there, fighting for the chance to do this and very openly doing it, it would have accomplished a lot more than this program did.

Well, we conduct programs in lots of different places without branding or advertising USAID.