This is intolerable not only to me, but to many in the Senate.

I want to make the point that some of us are going to introduce, I know Senator Carper is going to have authority in his subcommittee over TVA.

We can no longer afford inaction on climate change or on air pollution.

We want you to do this work. We don't want to put it into the political realm.

When you say science and the rule of law, it sounds funny that it would be such music to our ears.

If we are not satisfied with action, we may move legislatively.

However, without taking any of your time away--I have given you another 5 minutes. But I figure this way. If we did have to fight Rhode Island, 37 million people versus 1 million, I will take it.

What we look to you for is that leadership on the environment.

Pollution at levels that could make people sick or significantly increase their risk of cancer if they were exposed to the chemicals for a long period.

Well, that is what we need to hear.

These two agencies, in my view, have a moral responsibility to protect our families and our communities from environmental threats.

I just would put up a cautionary note here, because OMB sometimes gets themselves infused in these things from a budgetary standpoint.

I think we have to do that, otherwise we have paralysis.

I am a mother of a son with asthma. My youngest son spent his first Christmas in the hospital with asthma.

My understanding is, Congressman Rahall is looking at regulating it under the Mining Act. That to me is unnecessary.

We need the kind of bold and decisive, innovative leadership on environment that Lisa Jackson has brought and is going to deliver as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

the vast majority on this Committee believe that the Clean Air Act absolutely has a relevance to carbon dioxide.

We need EPA to enact rules, using the highest standards of ethical protections in pesticide studies.

How we address many environmental issues today will directly impact future generations.

Science, science, science and the rule of law.

California's loss is the Country's gain.

One of the things I often say, children are not little adults. They are growing, they are changing, and we need to treat them differently.

I don't want them to be involved in environmental regulations.

Continued inaction on clean air in our legislation means that tens of thousands of Americans will die prematurely from lung-related diseases in our States.