Jay Rockefeller

when most Americans think of cyber security, they conjure up an image of somebody having a credit card number stolen, for example, or a prankster using their Twitter account or somebody downloading a movie without paying for it. And…

today I am introducing the Small Business Start-up Support Act of 2012, legislation that will promote small business growth in my home state of West Virginia, and around the country. Since the recession, I have met with countless business…

I think a little context is helpful to understand the situation we were in. Republicans sought to use the FAA reauthorization bill to overturn a recent administrative rule by the National Mediation Board granting certification if a union…

And tremendous general aviation industry the Senator has in his State. That they come down and praise this bill means a lot to this Senator and I thank both of them. I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING…

I thank the Chair. The problem we face here is that most people are in the air coming in this direction. Most will land around 5 o'clock. So Senator Hutchison and myself don't feel any particular pressure. We can talk for long periods of…

Certainly. We had no intention of changing the level of deference that is accorded to the agency in representation matters. The NMB's certification authority remains conclusive.

I am in the happy position of mimicking a lot of what my colleague Senator Hutchison has said but for a very good reason. Until one goes through an experience such as the one Senator Hutchison and I have been through for the last year…

I note that the time is just before 5 o'clock. My distinguished Republican colleague, Senator Hutchison, is not on the floor at the moment, but I do not know of nor have I heard of any other Members wanting to speak. I don't know that we…

I thank Senator Roberts from Kansas and Senator Isakson from the State of Georgia--State of Atlanta--for their very kind remarks. I really mean that. These are two good people with a lot of business experience, with aviation--is Hartsfield…

We have made no progress, and that is embarrassing in view of what you and your predecessors have said about the nature of the threat.

I think there needs to be a government-private partnership.

I think it helped open up the dialogue between the Intelligence Community and this Committee.

I rise to honor Dr. Michael Copps. At the end of last year, Dr. Copps retired from public service--though not from public life. For those of you who do not know him, I want to take this opportunity to tell you about him, the life he has…

I was very pleased to hear that you want to proceed with the renewal of FISA.

I'm frustrated with the Legislative Branch. We have turf battles, we dither and diddle over policies.

Yet, concerns abound with opening the door to the creation of genetically engineered animals for food.

We're holding this hearing today to discuss the potential environmental risks of genetically engineered fish.

Worse, if GE salmon were to escape into wild habitats, they could mate with wild fish, passing their artificially engineered DNA into the wider gene pool.

This fish, the 'AquAdvantage' Salmon, has been engineered to grow faster and be heartier than its natural counterpart.

I feel that America's wild salmon stock and aquatic ecosystems are too important to allow them to be guinea pigs in what will amount to basically a huge experiment with GE fish in our waters.

That is why I've introduced Senate bill 1717--the Prevention of the Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act, which will prohibit the sale of Frankenfish within the United States.

My bill seeks to prevent the release of GE salmon and other marine fish into the wild until we have enough scientific evidence to show that the GE fish can be produced without risk to our Nation's wildfish stocks and aquatic environments.

I fully support Senator Begich's legislation S. 1717, to ban interstate commerce of genetically engineered salmon.

The U.S. has a responsibility, and any Federal agency has a responsibility for the environmental consequences of any action anywhere in the world.

By introducing this bill, I'm simply asking for more time--more science to be done before we make a decision that could have such enormous impacts to the environment.