The Clean Air Act is working.

Can I ask consent that my opening statement be included in the record?

I fully support regulating carbon from existing power plants.

It's time to turn a new chapter in the Clean Air Act.

We can and will have both [a healthy environment and robust economy].

Carbon combined in our environment, causing climate change, is real. It is causing serious risks not only to the people in our Country but globally.

We believe that a healthy environment and a robust economy go side by side.

The Clean Air Act has been widely hailed as being very successful.

It is infuriating to see them now cough up the same, tired, half-baked arguments against carbon emission limits that they have been making wrongly for four decades.

The cost benefit analysis that we go through when looking at EPA rules under the Clean Air Act or under the Clean Water Act, there are direct savings as Senator Boxer discussed, the number of premature deaths that will be saved, the number…

I applaud the efforts of the Administration to bring China into specific achievable goals as we all work toward our universal responsibilities to deal with climate change.

I wholeheartedly support this rule. I urge my colleagues to look at both sides of the ledge, not just the fossil fuel industry side.

We are in the process of having the ocean acidify at a faster rate than has ever occurred in the history of our species.

Mr. President, I want to comment on an interview that was published yesterday, quoting the President. In an interview published yesterday, the President spoke about a number of issues facing the United States. During that interview he had…

We cannot stop human innovation and we cannot give advantages in human innovation to other nations that we do not have.

the fact that countries like South Korea and others have more broadband penetration than the United States of America is absurd

I was talking about the spectrum availability and how that potentially could be constricting to American innovation.

I would love to encourage you to potentially hold a hearing just on that issue.