History has proven these people wrong, wrong, wrong.

If we provide convenient, reliable and efficient mass transportation options, Americans will choose them.

I think this is a very exciting opportunity out there posed in the form of a challenge.

We have a responsibility to protect our kids and our grandkids, not just ourselves.

This is the first of three hearings scheduled for this week to address vital aspects of our plan for legislation that will avoid the ravages of unchecked global warming, create clean energy jobs here in America, and reduce our dependence…

the ravages of global warming is going to affect us

there were far more emissions reductions than were predicted and the costs, the actual costs, were five times lower than they were projected to be

We need to put a market price on carbon and greenhouse gas emissions to reflect their true cost on our national security, our economy, and our environment.

I hope that we will also look at the roles that forests also provide.

We know how much transportation means to you and to your State.

the idea of cap-and-trade was created right here in this room years ago when we were fighting the problem with acid rain

President Obama says that the Waxman-Markey bill is a great start for us, and it will result in more nuclear power plants being built than you want.

the one thing I hope, Mr. Stallman, you will think about is the fact that we import so much foreign oil, and we are at the mercy of a lot of people that don't like us.

The truth is the benefits of the program exceeded the cost by 40 to 1, resulting in more than $70 billion in human health benefits annually.

No farmer that I know wants to be dependent on oil from people who don't like us.

The Obama administration has already taken important steps this year to address global warming pollution from motor vehicles.

On June 30th, the EPA finally granted California's request for a waiver providing the green light to my State and more than a dozen others to tackle tailpipe emissions of global warming pollution.

As we work to pass legislation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create millions of clean energy jobs, and protect our children from pollution, we need to consider global warming pollution from the transportation sector.

the marketplace is going to do it.

Yes, Senator, when you were gone, I talked about your plan.

I just want to say, before Secretary LaHood, you leave, and the Assistant Administrator, we are going to have this debate on Thursday because I am going to propose, I am sorry, tomorrow, I am going to propose an 18-month clean extension.

They said that the Waxman-Markey bill was, and I am quoting them verbatim, 'designed to make fossil fuel more expensive.'

If you could get us an answer in writing ASAP on that one. Just get back to us.

I do believe whether a wetland drains into a stream or a river, that is a different issue for me.

Well, the President has to sign it for it to become a law or we have to override a veto.