the path we are on has failed.

A cap on carbon in the U.S. will spur our companies to be the early movers in these markets.

We see it absolutely as an opportunity.

We are not just looking for a handout. We are looking for a hand up.

This legislation not only is good for our air quality but for jobs and business in general.

I respectfully ask the Senate to be as bold as the House has been.

Jobs are right at the top of this agenda, and how we restructure our energy economy so that we are not dependent on a few foreign nations.

We need change and we need it now.

Please, please, do what you can to help with the damn milk prices. I am just sick that it has come to this, and this has hit many, many family farms.

the rule ought to be here four words when it comes to poor kids and kids with special needs: no kid worse off, no kid worse off.

Somehow the last Administration figured out a way to give a couple hundred billion dollars to the top 1 percent.

unless we get this right in this committee, but more directly and more in a more determinative way in the Finance Committee, and I favor the lifting of Medicaid to a 150 percent of poverty, but even just by doing that, we could put some…

the North Koreans, recently announced that they've suspended the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean war.

In Pennsylvania, the Waxman bill has been projected, pretty accurately, to increase electricity costs by 30 percent, gas prices by 76 percent.

Our challenge now is to work with China to turn this commitment into effective implementation of the various Security Council resolutions.

If we just go back and stick to the basic thing we are trying to fix, the Clean Air Act, we are trying to reduce carbon emissions, we are trying to address climate change.

Personally, I believe natural gas should be a major component of any energy policy that this Congress endorses for a variety of reasons.

I can't tell you how much I agree that innovation is important. Now, where I disagree is that what I see as a subsidy bubble, these allowances, as a way to promote innovation.