The battles are going to be ferocious over the next few years on coal. It is cheap. It is abundant, and certain States produce a lot of coal.

I just think that there is a lot of promise there that we can move ahead on.

I want to thank Chairman Harkin and our Ranking Member, Senator Chambliss from Georgia, for their leadership.

I think that certainly the challenge for us in agriculture is that. We are going to need liquid fuels for a long time.

We do not need the government adding additional roadblocks.

I am convinced that we can do that if we just have the will to do it.

It cannot do it all. We are going to have to have something else, and that is where the cellulose comes in.

We want to produce a lot of fuel in this Country, a lot of liquid fuel.

We can do it here in this country, and we can provide a lot of jobs, a lot of jobs, and it clean up our environment.

If the environment is not free, well, then you have to start calculating the cost of that.

In my opinion, the tax policies proposed by the White House combined with the cap and trade bill passed by the U.S. House would be the largest money grab on small business in the history of our country.

I don't have any problem with things like living wills, but they ought to be done within the family. We should not have a government program that determines you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

I don't have any problem with things like living wills, but they ought to be done within the family. We should not have a government program that determines you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

I don't have any problem with things like living wills, but they ought to be done within the family. We should not have a government program that determines you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

I want to applaud you, Senator Murkowski, for recognizing this in your proposed language that requires any proposed offshore oil and gas production, to use pipelines to shore-based facilities rather than tanker transportation across Arctic…

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Republican Chuck Grassley says his Senate committee dropped that provision for fear it would be misinterpreted.

Those are just sort of fear-mongering out there for opponents of reform.