Tom Carper

When I talk about integrity, I often say if you have it, nothing else matters. If you do not have it, nothing else matters. Secretary Mayorkas has it.

Thanks to President Biden's leadership, drug manufacturers like Eli Lilly have followed suit and have voluntarily capped the price of insulin at $35 per month in the commercial market as well.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union.

Right now, 21 percent is going to intermediaries. There are much better things we can be doing with that money.

If I am trying to figure out what is the right thing to do, I try to put myself in other people's shoes.

EPA has projected that it will prevent premature deaths, that it will avoid hospitalizations, that it will cut asthma exacerbations.

We believe that bipartisan solutions are lasting solutions.

We do punch way above our weight, exactly. Small but mighty.

We need to be not blinded by science, we need to be guided by science.

I think we can, and I think we must.

Air is not partisan, respects no boundaries.

Let me interrupt to say that our prayers are with you, Roger, and with your constituents. I can't imagine how hard that is.

My hope is that we will be guided by science here, and at the end of the day we will be better prepared to deal with these issues in a fair and thoughtful way.

To me, that is not an undue burden on upwind States. It is basic fairness.

The Good Neighbor Rule is about basic fairness. It is about protecting Americans who are breathing dirty air that they didn't create.

Those who had the pollution control mechanisms didn't use them, they were able to provide cheaper electricity. That is just not fair.

EPA's science based rule has well defined economic and health benefits.

That is why we need a national strategy to address pollutants like ozone.

Downwind States need cooperation from our upwind neighbors and EPA if we are ever to have truly healthy air to breathe.

I believe that most Americans realize that air pollution is bad for our health, bad for our planet, bad for business and that it creates real economic hardships for communities that end up breathing dirty air.

Unfortunately, some people have forgotten in this country that air pollution knows no State boundaries.

Ozone pollution, also known as smog, is one of the most prevalent cross-State air pollutants in the United States.

EPA has an obligation to forge partnerships with States in order to make sure that everyone is doing their fair share.

For too long, many Americans living in downwind States have suffered in part because upwind neighboring States refuse to clean up their ozone pollution.

I have a couple of questions here. For the entire panel, a question dealing with the importance of the heavy duty NOx rule.