"So without a mandate, we are not going to get carbon pollution controls on coal, and that is why EPA rules are so essential."
"So it is good for American business? We can export this?"
"Well, if you don't have this requirement, why spend the money? Why would a coal company or a power plant want to spend the money if they didn't have to if they could do it without having to spend the ..."
"There is one set of laws we cannot change. Those are the laws of nature."
"My Republican colleagues accuse the president of waging a war on coal. In fact, the president is trying to create a future for coal."
"Investments that the Department of Energy is making in CCS will help industry produce cleaner power..."
"Industry can pollute because it costs less to dump pollution than to pay to clean it up."
"But we have a long record of DOE's investments and EPA standards that work hand in hand."
"So I think we ought to celebrate the ability of the new technologies to go along with the standards because it is going to be a win-win proposition."
"The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA, we call it, represents a fundamental shift in how FDA approaches food safety, focusing on prevention instead of reaction."
"We want to evaluate how businesses and government can better protect the security of consumers' personal information."