I hope you will work with us, sir, rather than just stand out there and say no to everything.

Legislation that provides powerful incentives for the development of clean energy technologies will put America to work.

Right now, Government's hand provides incentives to pollute.

Well, if you are worried about the consumer, I am as well, and we are going to make sure our consumers are not hurt.

Putting a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions is an act of patriotism twice over.

EPA calculates that the House-passed bill allocates to electric utilities in South Dakota a number of emissions allowances that greatly exceeds the amount of CO2 emissions that utilities in that State emitted in 2008.

It is projected that 161 new 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants would result from that bill as a result of putting a price on carbon there through the market.

I share that concern. I also believe it is hard to say you are for individual rights and community rights versus big government or big business if you do not understand that.

Let me just say on NEPA, we worked together to make sure, when the stimulus funding came, we were able to make sure that NEPA did not slow up the process.

Can that be a model that we could use in the Chesapeake Bay program, recognizing that we also must provide the resources and tools so we can realistically achieve the objectives that we say?

I think that we all agree that we should have goals set under the current way it is done.

But that being said, if we just turn our heads and say, oh, this hearing should be about the national security implications of cap-and-trade, I would like to be a little more basic here and focus on what are the national security…

As retired General Anthony Zinni has said, we will pay now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today or we will pay the price later in military terms and that will involve human lives.

I remain very concerned that simply lifting sanctions could reward Sudan without securing assurances that the Sudanese Government will take steps to end conflict in the Darfur region and in the South.

Climate change is a serious threat to our national security.

For many years, the world's experts on security have been telling us that global warming is a threat to our Nation's security and a danger to peace and stability around the world.

The U.S. will find itself in a world where Europe will be struggling eternally with large numbers of refugees washing up on its shores and Asia in serious crisis over food and water.

The very first thing when I was so honored to take the gavel of this committee is put together this book called Voices of the Senate on Global Warming.

The United States could more frequently be drawn into situations of conflict to help provide stability before conditions worsen and are exploited by extremists.

If there is one thing that all Americans, whether they are Republicans or Democrats or Independents, can agree on, is that our Nation relies too much on foreign energy and that this reliance puts our Nation at a security risk.

Given these figures, and our testimony today, it is clear that legislation to provide clean energy incentives to reduce foreign oil dependence does not cost the U.S.--it saves both money and lives.

Dolly's mother... was a garment worker who never taught Dolly to sew because she did not want her daughter to have to stitch clothes for a living.

on this EDA program, we both believe it really is a transformational program.

I am very proud of the way we do it. Our bipartisan judicial advisory committees have vetted all of these nominees.

I just want you to know that when Senator Inhofe and I--you know, when we differ, we differ. But when we agree, we strongly agree.