Maria Cantwell

I've heard just since last Friday from practically every major city or region of our state about their concerns about the continued movement of this product.

It's good to see you, Mr. Secretary. And thank you for all your leadership on freight and the FAST Act.

Last month was the sixth anniversary of the BP Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill, which was an epic human, economic and ecological disaster.

Offshore oil and gas production is an important part of our domestic energy portfolio today.

I think that is what these individual employees or small entrepreneurs want to see, is their ability to get the same kind of leverage as somebody that works for a larger company.

The world still looks to us for that expertise.

The expertise of the labs helps us leverage this technology.

Thank you, Chairman Murkowski and the members of the Committee, for the invitation to testify here today and to extend my particular thanks to our home state Senator, Maria Cantwell, who has been a strong supporter of our operations.

The role of Inspector General... is key.

This is especially important to me and the State of Washington because we have a long history of leaking nuclear waste tanks...

The responsibility is especially great because it is, with its $30 billion budget, responsible for maintaining and safeguarding our nuclear arsenal...

I strongly believe that if we are going to have economically meaningful trade deals and high standard commitments from our partners, then we must make sure those partners actually live up to those commitments.

I think is very, very important, so thank you.

Do you think we could get standardization with other countries on a biometric that is a retinal and fingerprint biometric standard?

I think the technology--mobile passport control, global entry, automated passport control kiosks--those are the kinds of things that not only improve our safety and security, but they also improve people moving through more expeditiously.

One of the things that you, I am sure, understand is that Senator Collins and I gave U.S. Department of Homeland Security the authority to expand preclearance overseas.

The problem is that the Chained CPI assumes that beneficiaries can simply choose cheaper alternatives when prices rise.

I have consistently opposed replacing the current cost-of-living adjustment method, known as the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage and Clerical Workers (or CPI-W), with the Chained Consumer Price Index (known as Chained-CPI).

I don't know any problem that I have ever solved without measuring it first and getting a good understanding of what we think the problem is.

I guess my question to you, Ms. Sohn, is similar when it comes to broadband and exactly what the FCC does.

I definitely think we need to talk about what data we can collect to get the accurate picture.

I thank my colleagues for a productive afternoon. We certainly improved the Senate Energy bill with a variety of amendments--the lands package specifically but other amendments as well, such as the energy savings by our colleagues, Senator…

The original Burr amendment did have a lot of discussion and passion on both sides, but the Senators were able to come together this afternoon to resolve their differences over this issue and craft a reasonable compromise that is…

If I may add to my colleague's comments, this underlying bill supports the Yakima River Basin bill, which is an integrated approach to addressing water management needs for farmers, families, and fish. It will help restore the ecosystem…

I think it's time for us to get realistic about providing the resources that the EPA needs.