The real conflict is knowledge versus ignorance, and I urge you all to choose knowledge.

Regulations are important. We issue them for a number of reasons, including to better protect our health, our safety, our environment, and the economy.

I want to touch again on what you just said about all of the above. Because we have an all of the above energy policy, which I think is good.

Our job is not to create jobs. My job as Governor was not to create jobs. Our job is to help create a nurturing environment for job creation.

We often talk about the jobs that could be created from a full-funded transportation bill. I have heard 600,000 jobs, 700,000 jobs.

I have been thinking a lot about it, and I think the President has a proposal. I am not a big fan of repatriation, but the President has an interesting proposal and that could be part of an all of the above approach as well.

Leadership has been defined as the courage to stay out of step when everyone else is marching to the wrong tune.

As the senior Senator from first State to ratify the Constitution, I applaud your use and reference to the Constitution here this morning.

I believe the estimated cost of the acid ran program launched by former President George Herbert Walker Bush, I think they estimated the cost of the acid rain program, to be 50 percent higher than what it turned out to be.

I have heard him talk about it in State of the Union Address and I have talked with people like Cass Sunstein.

I am for knowledge and against ignorance.

We are guilty of that, so we have some responsibility.

I think it demonstrates that the general public is willing to support this additional tax.

What we do is create a nurturing environment for job creation.

Guys like me, people who serve in these roles, we do not create jobs.

I think it was Andrew Jackson who used to say, one man with courage makes a majority.

That said, I think manufacturers in general support all the above discussion in terms of how to fund this as it relates to recognizing, back to the chairman's comments earlier, about the criticality of the infrastructure.

engaged oversight, Senator, to read our reports, look at our reports.