It's also important to emphasize that there's a great need to reduce the severity of wildfires proactively.

I believe the naysayers have it exactly backwards. In fact, we have been unilateral in our failure to act.

Investors across America... want to join in, but they need leadership from Washington, DC.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the panel. You have endured a lot here, and I think it has been a very, very good discussion.

The biggest bullet we have got is putting a price on carbon and a cap on emissions.

if you do the Waxman-Markey bill, it is going to cost jobs.

We have not taken decisive action in this area.

When we send a long-term steady signal to the marketplace that we are going to put a price on carbon and favor the innovative energy that does not rely on it, we unleash enormous, you will unleash enormous market forces.

If that disappears, you realign the whole water situation.

But this action is not enough. Americans need more than the occasional high publicity raid to fully protect them from a wide range of fraud and consumer scams.

Greater cooperation among Federal and state officials will be necessary to combat those who seek to take advantage of people in this current economic climate.

We must ensure that the FTC has both the authority and resources to be the 'nation's consumer protection agency.'

The economic challenges we face as a nation have resulted in increased fraud and consumer scams.

Well, the thing that happens in New Mexico, and this is something that all of us can look at the models.

The vision I think most of us have is that through putting a price on carbon, we move ourselves in a new direction.

So we should be focusing on how we get out of that box.

And the only reason economists tell us we aren't at $4 gasoline right now is we have a worldwide recession.

We must protect American farms, ranches and forests from global warming before the time runs out.