Cap-and-trade threatens farmers and livestock producers with higher production costs, from fuel to run their machinery to fertilizer to drying costs to the cost of shipping their goods to market.

All 40 Republican Senators agree with this four-part agenda. So do many Democrats.

Building nuclear power plants, 100 of them in 20 years, is the fastest, cheapest, reliable way to reduce carbon from utilities.

This bill is a massive new tax on consumers that will have virtually no effect on climate.

the term global warming again is--I appreciate that.

If countries like China and India and Russia are not part of a carbon reduction global program, that it does not matter what we do.

I have been observing over the last 2 and a half hours or whatever it has been how quickly we forget here in these hallowed halls, the insulation of the U.S. Senate.

America deserves better. America's families, farmers, and workers deserve to know how Kerry-Boxer will impose trillions of dollars in higher energy taxes, kill millions of jobs and treat unfairly entire regions of the country such as the…

And there are two issues, health care and then this thing we keep saying is not a tax, but what I consider to be the largest tax increase in history.

I believe this cap-and-trade concept is a bad idea in any climate, and is a particularly horrible idea in this deep recession.

Thank you for your thoughtful question concerning whether proposals to have the Pell grant increase at the rate of inflation plus 1 percent would meaningfully address college costs.

I think one is to get this amendment in so that we reestablish confidence in the government.

It is not about partisan issues, and it is really not about State. It is about doing what our Constitution says.

I found it offensive and I found no basis in law for them to force me to answer those questions.

States are going to apportion their representation based on what this gentleman and his department does.

The count is to be for citizens.

California will have five extra seats that they, in fact, do not deserve on resident citizens.

we lack credibility when we, within our own Government, cannot stop violation of human rights on our border