Well, my friend is so right. If this is an economic argument, bring it on to us. We know the numbers. The Senator has laid them out. We know tens of thousands of firms are moving forward because we have these laws on the books. The clean…

Well, of course my friend from Washington is right on target when she points out that--first of all, the EPA is being very cautious in the way it moves on this. They are only going after the biggest, dirtiest polluters. I think most of the…

There have clearly been a lot of moves on the part of special interests in this country--the biggest polluters--to try to get their way, and they try every which way to try to get their way. If they were to present the case to the Senator…

Senator Reid has laid out the devastating consequences of H.R. 1, which the Republicans have put forward as their plan to cut the budget. It is a jobs killer. It is a killer for the middle class. One of the things in H.R. 1, of many, is a…

These are the most difficult times on these children when the air is dirty. This is a beautiful child. She cannot breathe, and she has asthma. The reason we passed the Clean Air Act is because of kids like her, and others who are gasping…

I listened very carefully to my Republican colleagues who have come to the floor blaming the Democrats and the President for everything you can imagine, including the high price of gasoline and deficits as far as the eye can see. I wish to…

I am so pleased the Senate has passed H.R. 662, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011. This legislation provides a clean extension of Federal surface transportation programs through the end of the fiscal year. H.R. 662 was…

I am here today to speak out along with my colleagues for the women and children in our Nation who would be gravely harmed by the House budget, H.R. 1. We all know we need to reduce the deficit, but we also know the right way to do it. We…

I support efforts to improve our patent system. And there are some good things in this bill, including efforts to help small businesses navigate the PTO. But I strongly disagree with changing the core principle of our patent…

We should be united in this.

The public expects EPA to implement the Clean Air Act, specifically, the EPA to implement the Clean Air Act and strongly opposes congressional interference in the law's implementation.

We just want to be treated the same as other Federal employees, and that is how I have structured it. ... I believe this should be kept very simple; that in the case of a government shutdown we are treated the same way as other Federal…

I am going to take it to the American people, and he will as well.

What pollution is in particulate matter, those small pieces of pollution that get in our air?

I support the managers' package. It is terrific. One of the things in there is a Coburn-Boxer amendment that would keep the patent fees in the Patent Office. I am so glad the chairman sees it that way because we have such a tremendous…

We should delay our carbon pollution reduction effort until our economy improves.

in conclusion, let's meet in the middle. Let's put this 2011 budget issue behind us quickly. Let's move on to long-term deficit reduction and job creation. If we fail, let's not get paid for our work here.

I think that is really important.

they have a vendetta against clean energy. I guess they want to keep dependence on foreign oil. I do not and my people do not. We do not enjoy $5-a-gallon gas, which is where it is heading maybe because of the unrest in the Middle East. We…

No, I am not. I will reiterate again what I said, which is this: We do not increase or decrease the President's pay.

We are not changing a penny of the President's pay. What we are saying is, in the event of a government shutdown, he will be treated the same way other Federal employees are treated and be treated in the same way we are treated. He can…

Dirty diesel exhaust is deadly.

My interpretation of what the Supreme Court said, in a very clear decision, is once an endangerment finding is made...

Instead of doing that, they do these cuts by a thousand deaths.

There is no question that the stated view is, Congress should act on a specific bill on carbon pollution.