I would urge you to look at these protocols. They're, you know, very, very clear.

I think that's been strengthened now in the Senate.

To me what's really important is go after those high-risk areas first.

Well, it's not that complicated, is it? It says, 'Incorporate a review of meaningful metrics, require auditors to verify the operator has a procedure in place for ensuring the completeness and accuracy'--this is plain English.

I think they should do 100 percent. But 91 percent is a lot better than FAA does after the safety board tells them what to do.

Senator Feinstein and I introduced legislation to strengthen pipeline safety.

Don't you think this requires emergency orders, to immediately test and immediately talk to your partners in the state?

Absolutely. I think that's a very good analogy, frankly.

I am going to leave it to others to ask about the manual. Thank you all so much for your heroic efforts.

Because Max Baucus doesn't say things without a lot of thought.

Since the Clean Air Act's inception in 1970, the U.S. gross domestic product has risen by 207 percent.

Thank you. Let me thank Senator Boozman for this courtesy.

We have $48 billion a year of exports, clean-tech exports. It supports, by the way, 1.7 million jobs.

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Expanding the use of these technologies will put people to work, including construction workers who retrofit structures.

I would like to put into the record this terrific, part of this document which is The On-Bill Financing: Helping Small Business Reduce Emissions and Energy Use While Improving Profitability.

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I have often said if you can't breathe, you can't work. And that is a fact.

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