Maria Cantwell

We live in an information age. This is about the age of creativity. This is about how fast we can move.

It's got to be, obviously, more cost effective than the lawsuits that we are seeing which are getting us nowhere on trying to either recharge aquifers or save water or save fish.

I wouldn't say that it is not a panacea. Your problems are not solved once you incent them, but I do think that everybody gets to the table and I think all the issues get on the table and then I think the management of the problem is based…

I think it is astounding to find out that 40 percent of our coal comes off of these Federal lands.

The more I think representing the taxpayer here--and actually I did not hear my colleague say that they did not want the taxpayer represented.

I applaud you for taking this action here.

The fact that we have not done one in 37 years is quite astounding to me.

I do not think there is any mandate there.

This budget includes funding for the Secretary's Every Kid in a Park initiative...

Many of the priorities in this budget, such as the full funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund...

I think it is very telling when you look at this model, because clearly we are talking about the lower-income population that was always hard to serve.

So I look forward to your commitment to working with other States on that.

I supported Trade Promotion Authority because I believe in a global economy.

I want to put the administration on notice that this is something that we have grave concerns about in the budget.

I hope that we are not going to have a delay by our colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle on moving forward on that legislation.

Open MEPs represent a bipartisan solution to addressing this critical retirement coverage issue.

Vehicles affect almost all Americans. Today's hearing is a way to talk about new vehicle technologies.

The U.S. auto industry has come back during the last seven years and it sold a record number of vehicles last year.

American vehicles are still very dependent on oil. In fact, transportation is responsible for 70 percent of U.S. petroleum usage.

I think what is happening is consumers find out more information about pollution and particularly in China they are raising great concern.

I want to emphasize a few things. Utility scale wind capacity has grown by 677 percent from less than nine gigawatts to nearly 70 gigawatts in the last ten years.

I thank the Senator from Indiana for his great remarks. I thank him for making them today. ____________________

While the implementation of this law clearly has tremendous impact on Alaskans, I think it is important to remember that the lands covered by ANILCA are Federal lands and those are lands of national interest.

Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the date the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act was signed into law.

So how do you build the continuity in the system?