Jay Rockefeller

Across the nation, we're driving on more than 90,000 miles of crumbling highways.

Those are public resources and they are owned by the public.

In 2009 alone, congestion cost consumers and businesses well over $115 billion in wasted time and fuel.

We'd be crazy not to do this.

Americans rely on railways, they rely on highways, on airways, on waterways, and they do that so they can move goods efficiently.

Those dollars, in my view, ought to, not to go into the Oil Spill and Liability Trust Fund, but be used, in fact, for those areas in large marine ecosystems.

the Ocean Conservancy strongly supports Senator Rockefeller's bill and the use of the Clean Water Act penalties toward the 80 percent dedicated toward the Gulf.

If they are headed to the Arctic, we all know that we have a tremendous gap in monitoring observation and research.

It appears to me that it's in the government's interest to do an infrastructure bank for one of two reasons, either to shift risk, or to access capital.

I think this has been an amazing hearing.

Some in the House actually are adamant about the need to slash funding for transportation projects.

Overall, our country's infrastructure receives a D-minus grade from a national rating group.

That must begin with dedicating a significant portion of the Clean Water Act penalties, as has been done by Senator Rockefeller in Senate Bill 1140.

We can do better than this, you know.

We want to try to find a way to get everybody on the same page here, because this is too important for our country.

46 years ago, Congress made a promise to the thirteen Appalachian Regional Commission member States--New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama…

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That early and sustained commitment has translated into U.S. global leadership in nanotechnology research.

we tend to invest our dollars--a classically American thing to do--in basic research, in other words, go find something.

I've paid a lot of attention to both.

We've got to do whatever we can. And all of a sudden, we're presented with this enormous gift which could employ millions of people.

There are significant economic and societal incentives to maintain our lead in this field.

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I believe nanotechnology plays a key role in boosting the economy and creating jobs.

Nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize such areas as health care, information technology; energy, also important; homeland security; food safety; and transportation.