I was reminded again last night why our effort to help small businesses makes sense. I was at the Alliance to Save Energy and I gave an award called the Andromeda Award to a company called O-Power. It is a small company that has developed…

The students now are at the beach and at the swimming holes, and they're not thinking about their education. But we are. And we're seeing good things. I was at the Everett School District, where they're getting 90 percent graduation rates…

Republicans and Democrats mourned the losses in the gulf, and it is very disappointing that my Republican friends will not stand to try to prevent this tragedy. The fact is, oil is killing the oceans in many ways--in one way, in a small…

The previous speaker had a cute poster showing Uncle Sam talking about cuts, and we know that we have a long- term deficit issue to deal with. But I think it's appropriate to look at the numbers, and the simple numbers are things that we…

We are involved in a race today. It's a race to grow clean energy jobs, and we are in a race with the rest of the world and particularly China. China recently announced they will be investing over $750 billion over the next 10 years to…

I wish to address the security of our citizens. Here's a headline July 26 that we're going to see repeated across the country in the next year: ``Linwood Cops Face Job Cuts.'' We are facing a 25 percent reduction of police officers in…

One thing good about our country, we always go forward, not backwards. And we are not going to go backwards to allow the privatization of Social Security. We are not going to go backwards to allow the removal of important protections…

We now are at a critical juncture to determine whether or not we will respond to a terrible problem in the oceans, and that is not just the oil spill in the gulf; it is the acidification of the oceans now caused by carbon dioxide that…

Today, in order to attend important meetings in my district, I was absent from votes on H. Res. 1368, Supporting the goals of National Dairy Month; H. Res. 1409, Expressing support for designation of June 20, 2010, as ``American Eagle…

Well, there are numerous policies that could deal with this problem, and our resolution does not specify any particular policy. We look to the bipartisan efforts that we hope will succeed here in an effort that will reduce what causes…

I just want to make the point and make sure Members know we are not advocating any particular policy. What we are advocating here is that we, on a bipartisan basis, take the blinders off to a problem that we have to face on a bipartisan…

This morning the Sustainable Energy and Environment Caucus had a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and she told us something that I thought was encouraging, which is that the United States Federal…