I would hope that you'd be willing to take a look at it perhaps with a fresh approach.

we should be using science, not politics.

We recognize that, as competent and as able as our friend and former colleague Secretary Salazar is, he can't do this job alone.

We recognize that you can have development of your resources or otherwise, you can have development in concert with care and protection of our environment.

I have introduced legislation that would give consumers leverage to negotiate for reasonable rates with their lenders and ban abusive lenders from using the bankruptcy court system to enforce their excessive interest claims.

That might have been a pretty healthy thing to do.

I think that the credit card contracts that we are given as consumers are easily understood?

We need to have an agency that is looking out for consumers, saying this is a toxic instrument, you should not be allowed to sell this in America.

bankruptcy is one of the greatest things that can happen for poor people in America.

If you can get those words out of your mouth, you and I do not have anything to talk about.

And, of course, they are facing interest rates with those credit cards which can be astronomical.

I do believe that they are a cold-blooded bunch, that they do desire to make maximum profits.

Credit cards are important, I have a wallet full of them, too. But I think they have gone way too far.

Isn't that the last gasp? I mean, when everything is falling apart, they max out the credit cards to try to hang on, hoping that things may turn around if they cannot?

Mr. John, did we make a mistake capping the interest rate that could be charged to members of the U.S. military at 36 percent?

I think that is an experience most of us would run into, and the point I am trying to get to is that buried within those credit card agreements are a lot of traps.

I can't think of anything more important that is happening in America today in terms of our future capability to run this machine than to be talking about nuclear energy.

I think that's significant, because you talk to most people and they don't realize that.