A hearing has great utility in allowing people to express themselves and to have some consideration.

Well, I am glad to hear you like cap-and-trade and like the legislation. But in order to get the legislation, there may have to be a little give.

you can't emit carbon dioxide unless you pay for it.

I think it is not too much to say that what we are doing today may really turn out to be historic, as we grapple with very critical objectives.

the issue that Senator Voinovich has raised is a big one.

I think the long-term strategies are critically important. We have got to get them right.

My top priority--and I think it is the top priority of everyone here--is to make sure that our agriculture in any State, but across the country, can compete nationally but also internationally.

We are open for business for people who have problems and ideas.

It would be very refreshing in America today if we could find a bi-partisan answer.

We can do it together?

I do not think there is a category of families or a group of families that have been more hard hit than those who are dairy farmers all across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as so many other States that are represented here today.

It would be my hope that we will finally get to the witnesses, and then we will have other witnesses.

It is my hope that we will listen to the witnesses.

I appreciate you mentioning your Senator, Senator Bernie Sanders, who worked very hard on that $350 million.

This hearing is adjourned. Thank you very much.

I want to make sure that Vermont gets a little rebuttal time here.

That raises very serious separation-of-powers concerns simply because you are purporting to say this is the person the President has to listen to.

Did Congress have the authority to create a position, the role of which is to act as chief adviser to the President?