It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure that their habitat is protected? It is nothing, … This is not a modernization of the act. This is a euthanization.

The third goal of the new Apollo Project is to grow jobs right here in the United States rather than allowing job loss to go overseas.

This study makes it clear that our nation isn’t doing enough to develop clean and secure sources of energy, … In order to spur innovation, we need to focus investment priorities – like we did...

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is...

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Right now we do not have adequate measures of safety because 90 to 95 percent of those bags are unscreened in the belly of an airplane.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

They want to give away the taxpayers’ gold. If somebody went to Fort Knox and took gold out, they’d be in jail for the rest of their lives. But in national forests, people can take...

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

I found your study to be critical … and there is evidence that logging may have some consequences we may not fully understand.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

What the president did was wrong; he should be censured, but not impeached. Rick White and Newt Gingrich shouldn’t be dragging us through this. Enough is enough. It’s time to get on with the nation’s...

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

The abuses and failures we’ve seen in Iraq — we don’t want to duplicate those here at home,

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of...

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

We cannot allow telecommunications companies to hijack the Internet. After all, the beauty of the Internet is its open architecture.

President Bush’s proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

I fear that the days are soon upon us where we will see daily reports of exotic, unnecessary and grossly overpriced purchases of goods and services under the guise of providing hurricane relief and recovery.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

[Pombos bill is] not modernizing the Act, it is euthanizing it, … It is putting it down with the guise of kindness, with the guise of making it stronger.

Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy – most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers...

What is a fish without a river? What is an Endangered Species Act without protection?

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

The Bush administration’s callous reference to this simply as a ‘California problem’ with no short-term solution threatens not only consumers in the West but the entire U.S. economy,

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

This is a gross and disturbing violation of the commitment to keep water healthy in the straits and Puget Sound.

Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.

High-tech and biotech firms that effectively attract and retain venture capital should not be excluded from the SBIR program simply because the nature of their research requires large sums of investment.

The abuses and failures we’ve seen in Iraq; we don’t want to duplicate those here at home,

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

There’s been a dramatic change in climate since before Christmas. It’s shifted people. Some majority-party members are thinking twice about this bill.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum...

People do not pay their taxes for Uncle Sam to burn down neighborhoods.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

We can see the dollar figure cut out of the education budget that was put in by the Senate,

We consume about 25 percent of the world’s oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young...

[Washington State Democrat Jay Inslee brought an enlarged photo of the bald eagle to the House floor.] What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in, …...

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

It does not appear that there is a single inspector general who is in full charge of seeing that these monies are wisely spent.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in...