It is important that we continue to raise those standards in accordance with what is going to best protect the American public.

we will be better not just as a country but as a species if we continue the sort of cutting-edge research.

I really appreciate your hard work, and another 40 years for this project.

I would hope that you are developing materials, links to websites that you can disseminate us to...

if we're going to break those boundaries, reach beyond what we know, it does take that kind of serious long-term committed investment, even in the face of if not failure, not the sort of data you would have wanted.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and to the Ranking Member, and most of all, thank you to the four of you and these huge, exciting team of international researchers.

One of the reasons we moved early and vigorously in Connecticut, because the same rules that address climate change are helping bring down asthma rates in our cities from dirty air that's blown over from other parts of the country.

I come from the great State of Connecticut, where we have found, and shown, that good environmental protection leads to economic growth, not the contrary.

These same engineers who developed fracking technology can also be developing, and I would argue, better off developing, clean, renewable energy technologies that can be licensed to the world.

I endorse consideration of H.R. 501 Veterans and Servicemembers Employment Rights and Housing Act of 2015.

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the Clean Power Plan in fact will not cost jobs and it won't take down the economy.

Empowering residents and citizens and businesses to use energy more efficiently is one of the key elements.

we would reduce our carbon emissions by about 20 percent.

EPA is also... meeting its statutory obligation to protect our public health and our environment.

if we don't do something now, we are in big trouble.

Connecticut's success with greenhouse gas reductions has been vast and extraordinary.

We don't believe that the EPA has created a mandatory cap-and-trade program through the Clean Power Plan.