This bill will raise electric bills across the country by hindering the development of traditional energy sources while also, ironically, limiting the development of renewable energy.

If you want to talk about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, nuclear power today, without any of the incentives that ought to be in a bill like this and aren't in a bill like this, already reduces greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of…

You talk about the transition to a green economy. We are all in favor of that. You talk about the creation of green jobs. But isn't a fact that nowhere in your statement or in the Waxman bill is there any description of how we get there?

I hope you are right about that, Mr. Secretary, because I am very concerned that the countries that we compete with around the world, where we are already far superior in our environmental practices--you have talked about waste and so on.

And look at what we are doing to rural America in limiting access to other forms of energy that farmers, ranchers, and businesses that operate in rural areas need, like coal--coal is treated so poorly in this process.

we are not just talking about what happens here in the United States, because it is one atmosphere, it is one globe.

I am making a plea today for common sense, and I very much appreciate your discussion of the unfairness with the allocations.

we have an unfair allocation here that is going to cause electricity prices to go up for my constituents more than they will in other places.

Our goal was to look at whether or not treatment and prevention should be priorities rather than simply punishment, and they are.

I had an experience locally, here at the Lorton Prisonsite that was transferred to Fairfax County.

I particularly want to thank the chairman for holding these hearings that are clearly of importance to all of us in the National Capital Region, especially those who live in the District of Columbia.

If you could get it back to the committee for the record, that would be very helpful because we need to look at the scope of the problem.

It sounds to me like this may be one of those areas that needs to be clarified in the law.

Well, Mr. Allison, I hope that would be the case. My only hesitancy--and it is one of the reasons why we actually put forward legislation, which I, again, would love to not have the need for--is that we have heard that response from every…

the status of all of the investments we have made with the TARP program.

I can tell you, at least, again, in my State, an awful lot of folks think that we have taken these funds and basically either thrown them into the wind or flushed them down the toilet.

I just want to get a little further confirmation on that as well.

I would like to see some of the upside here.