If you had actually encrypted Federal employees' Social Security numbers or their personally identifying information, would that have prevented the disclosure?

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thanks for holding the hearing.

The choice between curbing climate change and growing our economy is, as I have suggested here many times, a false one.

I often say people who have our jobs, we do not create jobs. Mayors do not create jobs. Governors do not create jobs. Presidents do not create jobs.

We must act now while the ability to mitigate the most harmful impact is still within our grasp.

the more severe, the more costly, and perhaps irreversible, the effects of climate change are becoming.

We expect them to go out and say to those who are going to be regulated, 'What are your ideas? What do you think?'

What Ronald Reagan proposed all those years ago meets the commonsense test for me.

We have a moral obligation to make sure we have a planet with a decent quality of life.

we can no longer afford inaction.

For decades, the fear of the cost to combat climate change prevented any real action on this issue in Congress.

All the while, it is becoming clear that the price of inaction is much greater than the price of action.

Without action on climate change, we will need to spend billions of dollars in this century to protect our State.

If we are going to have regulations--and we need them--make sure we are using some common sense.

Mr. President, today, I want to take a moment to recognize the important relationship between the United States and Jamaica and the role Jamaican Americans play in promoting trade and development between our two nations. The United States…

The truth is our roads, highways, bridges, our transit systems are in bad shape and getting worse.

I said, let us raise the user fees--not by a dollar, not by half a dollar or 25 cents, but let us raise them.

Another truth is, if things are worth having, they are worth paying for.