Michael Bennet

Senators Burr, Hatch, and I have a bill that will do just that.

Thanks to innovations in the drilling processes, our domestic production of natural gas has quadrupled since 2005.

I am also a strong believer that we ought to be moving toward technology-neutrality in our tax code.

What kind of customers are those?

UPS's commitment to this has been really very strong, and you had to make a business case--or somebody had to make a business case--to build the infrastructure that is required.

What it is doing is removing a disincentive that is making people make a choice they would not make if the Congress were allowing the market to work properly.

I think what is clear, if you listen to this, is that there is a revolution going on out there...

The path that we are on is not sustainable, and it is not smart.

Consequently, UPS is pleased to support Senate Bill 1103, the LNG Excise Tax Equalization Act of 2013, which Chairman Bennet--we thank you very much--sponsored and Senator Burr of this subcommittee cosponsored.

Our tax laws are critical to the development of the new infrastructure needed to aid the growth of these vehicles and to exploit the potential of this domestic resource.

I am a firm believer that we can produce natural gas safely and in a way that protects drinking water, air quality, and adjacent communities.

A lot of what we were trying to do with this legislation, at least in my mind, was have a Western perspective actually inform the farm bill when it came to conservation.

I would say just on that point that, at least to my mind, the interpretation in that case or the requirement--which was not a requirement that any Federal agency, any other Federal agency has ever required of any landowner that I am aware…

Farmers and ranchers in Colorado, rightly believe that they had a huge hand in writing these provisions to begin with, because they did.

I wholeheartedly agree that is where we ought to head.

In the end, more than 1,500 homes and 200 commercial buildings were destroyed.

We all know that natural disasters can be completely devastating to communities.

It is important for us to get the details right to ensure the policy works as well as existing credits.

I am only saying these are all subsidies and we should just be honest about it.

I have not detected that the wind jobs are taking away the oil and gas jobs.

We should be on the lookout for that everywhere in our statute books, especially in the context we were having a discussion about, which is winners and losers.

The New York Times columnist, David Brooks, wrote in a different context not that long ago that the future has no lobby in Washington, DC.

I just wondered if you could talk a little bit about the efforts that you're making to create a more global, interoperable network of real-time detection of diseases and collaboration among these various countries in our response?

We need the money, that's right.

I appreciate that testimony. Thank you for your testimony.