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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jan 8, 2003

If we were to increase the CAFE limits, there's no doubt that brings an environmental and a greenhouse-gas benefit.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jan 8, 2003

I think there are things that we can do to positively affect our net national carbon emissions.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jan 8, 2003

I think it's an important issue. It's a tough issue.

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Jay Inslee
@jayinslee· Democratic · WA· Jan 8, 2003

You've decided to sing a different song of saying, we ought to take action.

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Jay Inslee
@jayinslee· Democratic · WA· Jan 8, 2003

We need leaders who will not sing Nero's song, which he sang as Rome burned, which was, 'We need more research.'

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Aug 8, 2002

I think that in-line systems really are certainly faster, will inconvenience the passengers less, but more expensive.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Aug 8, 2002

We do not have the time, we do not have the money, we do not always have the wherewithal to do that with domestic.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Aug 8, 2002

We must move forward with that to meet the mandate of Congress.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

The truth is this country finds itself in the midst of a corporate crime wave.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

It is sham reform that perpetuates the current system of self-regulation.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

The administration has been cynically arguing the 'bad apple' theory.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

the Senate bill is still by far the best reform proposal on the table.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

President Bush has appointed many others from the corporate boardrooms, giving Americans the sense that the foxes are indeed guarding the henhouse.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

If we want average Americans to continue to view our financial markets as a place where they can entrust their long-term savings, then we need to provide them with reasonable assurance that our system of investor protections is once again…

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

I have to tell you that I have never seen a more appalling example of heartless, unfettered corporate greed than that revealed by the recent, widespread accounting scandals.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

The Senate bill does take a number of meaningful steps forward to strengthen oversight of the accounting industry.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

The bottom line is that if Mr. White knew what was going on with Enron Energy Services, he has no business running the Army.

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Jay Rockefeller
@jayrockefeller· Democratic · WV· Jul 18, 2002

What we are looking at here is more than a few bad apples.

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