I want to take a moment and express my appreciation to Senator Warner for having stepped up to this.

It is one thing to come up with an idea. It is another thing to organize it.

the sooner you can get it to Providence... God speed.

I was impressed by the examples of the effects that Dr. Frumhoff gave us of, essentially the effects that already underway.

We have seen estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency that the current deficit of water and wastewater infrastructure in this country is $662 billion.

We are still here in the Senate in an environment in which we are still frequently told that there are scientists that disagree with the fundamental premise of climate change.

Today's hearing is a check-up on our equity markets amid concerns that technological developments in recent years may be disadvantaging certain investors.

It is important that regulators keep up.

As many families struggle to regain their footing, stay in their homes, and keep their jobs in the wake of a severe recession caused by reckless profit seeking on Wall Street, it is appropriate and timely to meet today to ask questions…

by putting a price on it, you allow the market to adapt to the real cost of their product.

As I understand it, this bill does nothing to interfere with the military's selection of the appropriate--the most appropriate fuel, to carry out its mission.

the missions that our military will have to address will be more dangerous, more frequent, more widespread, if we cannot control our climate.

So, our present reliance on foreign oil is a national security risk?

One of the reasons I mention that... is that we have a very severe unemployment problem and at the same time a water and wastewater deficit.

Americans are brought together by our common understanding that our current fossil fuel energy habit is not sustainable.

I would urge that as you look at the nuclear component of our energy portfolio, you invest aggressively in potential technologies that could take our existing nuclear waste and reconfigure it into fuel and turn it into value.

It is my understanding that those dispatch rule do not take the environmental costs of the units into consideration whatsoever.

Let's work together on making sure we do that.