Should we not say 'shift,' if it appears that the coal, oil, and gas States would lose a significant amount of jobs?

We need to get smartened up and realize it's here, and begin to deal with it in a comprehensive fashion.

These situations demand far more creative thinking than we've been able to provide.

We exempt, of course, a lot of small businesses, because obviously--and I agree with Senator Enzi in that point.

The statistic in my own opening statement, that still sort of stunned me when I kept on reading it over and over again--the fact that a person with H1N1 going to work, according to the CDC, could contaminate or affect 10 percent of that…

Having an adequate domestic capacity for developing pandemic vaccines is a matter of national security.

I think it is wonderful to want to have the world to all live in accordance with the globalization approach towards this, but my experience in the 33 years I have been here is that, if we commit to it, we will live up to it, but a lot of…

I personally believe China may very well show up at Copenhagen and say, well, we are for all of this, but it is not going to make any difference in what they do.

If the United States implements cap and trade unilaterally...we would, indeed, make ourselves considerably less competitive.

We are certainly concerned about it, which is why...we do have some concern.

The increases in the price of energy caused by the program would reduce workers' real wages.

I appreciate your courtesy in doing that.

While the Democrats want to talk baseball, we want to talk about health care. The American families are striking out.

As Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz put it, he wants to use his time in Washington to help solve the nation's woes, not vote on absurd resolutions.

I know it is the pattern that the Chairman and the Ranking Member give the opening statement and we do not.

I remain open to considering any reform measures that will promote competition in the insurance sector.

I believe that the essence of capitalism in our free market system is competition.

I have as of yet seen little evidence to justify a complete repeal of the antitrust exemption for the insurance industry.