I think last Tuesday, the EPA Administrator confirmed that the cap-and-trade tax bill... is no longer about solving global warming.

At least you are aware that there is a strategy that we have been trying desperately...

If Government imposes taxes and mandates, increases bureaucracy and spends without restraint, then Government can transform the economy and create jobs.

The Democrats should familiarize themselves with the work of Christina Romer.

Let's be clear: Waxman-Markey is a tax increase on the American people.

If you want to do this, which is come out and get rid of, reduce the CO2, just have a tax on it.

The faulty logic of cap-and-trade has no basis in history.

Claims that GHG cap-and-trade can boost total employment have become commonplace . . . these claims are incorrect.

the Waxman-Markey bill has been entitled the American Clean Energy and Security Act. It is also known as ACES. And ACES to me is a bad bet, a bad bet for enhancing U.S. global competitiveness and for creating jobs.

I think it is important to----

The authors of this bill, to me, are overstating their case, and the taxpayers should be concerned about taking another major gamble in allowing for this massive energy tax scheme to pass.

Now, this is not me. This is said by Mr. Chu, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The American people do not want Congress gambling with their future.

So to me, no action by the United States in slowing down and limiting our own economy through a cap-and-trade scheme is going to change China's position.

We are not fostering an environment that is friendly to business.

We have an energy proposal, a policy, and it is called all of the above. We want green jobs. We want wind. We want geothermal. We want solar energy. But we also want oil and gas.

We need clean coal technology. We cannot do it without coal.

this would translate into an increase of 20 cents per gallon of gasoline for American consumers.