One of the biggest damages to justice in America I think has been bogus lawsuits filed at great cost.

Based on the results of the 2012 Lifeline recertification process, approximately one-third of all subscribers that were enrolled in the program in June 2012 were de-enrolled for failure to recertify their eligibility.

So the Federal grant money was very helpful in helping you make that decision?

Senator Inhofe knows what he is talking about when he talks about Africa. We should call him the Senate's Ambassador to Africa.

We have the tightest regulations in the world on vehicles here in the United States.

Whenever there is a regulatory shift, there is a technology shift, for whatever reason.

It does raise the question of what we can afford, how many hours a vehicle is being used, how much we can afford to put in the older vehicles.

Thank you. I want to ask a number of questions, and maybe briefly go through and give us some perspective on where we are.

Well, we are making progress with the new ones.

I think that insight into the advantage of electricity over burning of waste products is certainly valuable to us all.

I guess I am wrestling with the question, should we do more to incentivize the new vehicles also, not just retrofitting old ones.

Last year, due to the work of Chairmen Carper and Inhofe, the EPA issued a 388-page report to Congress on black carbon.

Mr. Chairman, you are a great leader, we thank you for that.

I thought I would yield to Senator Inhofe. He has been active on this issue for a number of years and is our ranking member of the full Committee.

You really have to give them a lot of time, and they are complex. I just wanted to recognize that.

I think it is a right--there is a right to be concerned about the slow pace in not filling nominees, but I guess the blame goes around.

It looks like court packing.

You are doing better. You have got more clerks. You have got better... You have got more computers.

We simply do not have the money to do everything that may even be good.

We have the greatest judiciary in the world. I am so proud of it.

If we add 91 judges, should one President get to appoint all those judges?

Well, my thought is that the courts are able today to handle more cases than they have been able to do in the past and that some of those numbers should be changed.

I think at least half of the vacancies that exist today there is no nomination for that vacancy.

We are not going to add 91 federal judges. That is just not going to happen.

But I will listen to the concerns that are being raised, and if we made a mistake, I am willing to change it.