[th]e Putin government has selectively and ruthlessly utilized its prosecutorial powers to silence incipient rivals and thereby intimidate other potential opponents.

The Obama administration will seek greater contributions from our NATO allies in Afghanistan.

The United States today should be heavily engaged in helping to promote stable and transparent energy trade in Europe.

So what I would like for us to do is to look at each of the elements of coal-burning for electricity that creates an environmental problem for us and get on a fast-track, I say mini-Manhattan project, to solve the problem.

Roughly what percentage of your mercury emissions do you think you are capturing with that approach, as a co-benefit?

Jade, some day you may sit up here and chair this Committee. You never know.

Well, we will have a new cop on the beat in about 2 weeks.

I thought 90 percent sounded pretty good.

When you are a neighbor, you have to be concerned about this.

The carbon capture is obviously going to be a very expensive proposition, and then you have, what are you going to do with the carbon after you have captured it.

TVA ought to be a role model for us. You should be the gold standard.

We are going to try to do our best to make sure that you are treated fairly going forward.

We have about 25,000 people this year that are going to die from the stuff that we breathe.

What we really need here... is a series of mini-Manhattan projects on how we can safely and cleanly use coal in this Country to make electricity.

We want you to be the leader in figuring out how do we deal with sequestration of CO/2/, we want you to be the leader in helping us to find ways to reduce SO/x/, NO/x/ and mercury discharges and to meet an aggressive schedule.

I will work with Governor Bredeson, who has been on the site. I will work with Mr. Kilgore and with this Committee to make sure that this does not get lost in the shuffle.

Give us some examples of how that $100 million is going to be spent.

My hope as we leave here is that TVA will leave with a renewed commitment to be the kind of steward that they are expected to be.