I would hope we can focus on real problems and real abuses and close those without that massive cost shifting and without closing the door of certain opportunity and service to consumers who may want them.

I am also cognizant that the EPA should not be under the impression that this legislation expands EPA authority over Gulf of Mexico resources.

I would like to thank you for the opportunity to discuss legislation before this committee on America's great water bodies, in particular the Gulf of Mexico.

I am a cosponsor of this legislation and am hopeful for its successful implementation.

This legislation would authorize $10 million for fiscal year 2010, $15 million for fiscal year 2011, and $25 million for fiscal years 2012-2014.

Senator Mary Landrieu... is very skeptical of the public option.

Don't pass it, and we could lose both chambers.

They will get slaughtered. And maybe one of the reasons that his health care approval is at 42 percent is people are saying, why -- he hasn't got anything done yet.

I know my time is expired, but it's a real problem, Mr. Chairman, in the current framework of Waxman-Markey...

Our objective is to clean the environment and to do it in a very cost-effective manner.

I think the American people have a right to benefit from resources that they own.

I guess, as Senator Cantwell said, the sweet spot is a wide variety of choices of clean fuels, with competition in the marketplace.

Yes, I think it's going to be troubling. I don't think it's going to be the be-all or end-all.

Cap-and-trade is potentially a new stealth tax in the order of magnitude of more than $1,700 per American household annually.

Economic costs will likely be on the order of 1 percent of GDP, making them equal in scale to all existing environmental regulation.

Well, I mean, I think that's one thing that -- obviously that's one thing that you're going to want to look at.

There's no doubt the Republicans are doing better. We're not going to win three elections in a row. That's not going to happen.

I believe this is an important discussion we are having today, and one that needs to be held over and over again.