If it is not a renewable power, maybe we need a clean energy mandate for base load power.

It worked. It worked then, and I think it is regarded as maybe one of the most, maybe the most, successful environmental program that we have had in this country.

I want to say very clearly about the CBO study of Waxman-Markey, which is respected, that for the lowest income quintile...

the cheapest form of energy is the energy that we do not use.

we need to put a price on carbon and a cap on carbon emissions

A number of us on this panel, certainly my colleague Lamar Alexander and I, are strong advocates of nuclear energy.

I find it ironic, as some of colleagues demonize cap-and-trade, that to the extent that I studied anything as an undergraduate at Ohio State, I studied economics.

Congressman Rick Boucher... told us earlier this week it is about the cost of a postage stamp for most families.

I believe that they have crafted the legislation so that the lowest 20 percent income families would basically get a pass in terms of any increase in their energy costs because of this legislation.

We are going to be building a DuPont windmill farm off the coast of Delaware, the first in the Nation.

I never heard much of cap-and-trade, in fact, until 1990 when a fellow named George Herbert Walker Bush, our President, in signing the Clean Air Act into law, called for establishing a cap-and-trade regimen.

Maybe we need a nuclear power mandate for States.

I agree entirely with Senator Collins. We are creating a litigation magnet by creating a statutory right to fly without ID.

when you put a price on carbon, all of these other energy sources become more competitive.

If we do not do anything, we will continue to see the kind of ice melts up in the North Pole.

I just think we have to do something about it while we have time.

I think we have seen that. And I want my children, and their children, to be able to walk to school, to be able to bike along the streets, and to be able to feel that sense of community that we all felt when we were growing up.

Those 2 hours went by quickly, did they not?