Tom Carper

How do we get a better result for less money about almost everything that we do?

I believe that your Department budget takes really a giant step in this direction, cutting, I am told, more than $850 million in administrative costs and duplicative programs for fiscal year 2013.

I just want to commend you and the folks who work for you who have taken your Department to this point in time.

If we do not have good financial controls, if we do not have the ability to actually track money, I mean, we are doomed.

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that they are going to be audit ready this year.

We have seen tremendous improvements in air quality.

There is an old saying, flattery won't hurt you if you don't inhale, so I am not breathing up here.

We are well positioned to comply.

For those of us literally in some cases have to breathe the pollution that was put up in the air in Maryland that blows our way, we especially are grateful for the work you have done and for expediting it.

I think we can be smart, to avert the hammer on our heads.

Isn't the U.S. on its way to becoming the Saudi Arabia of natural gas?

We believe that it is actually a boon for the economy.

This is not a red State issue, this is not a blue State issue, these are shared American values in protecting our children's health.

Thank you for those kind words.

Thank you very much, Administrator Lisa Jackson, for leading the way and finally ending this delay in protecting Americans from this very serious toxic air pollution.

We will do everything we legally can to fight this rule.

We are hearing claims today that the EPA's rule will lead to potential adverse impacts on electrical reliability.

The cost of compliance will be a small fraction of what we previously predicted.

Thank you so much for that testimony and for the leadership that you continue to provide.

90 percent of our air pollution literally comes from places outside of our State that we are unable to control.

Could each of you take maybe a minute apiece to discuss how cleaning up mercury from our largest source--that is coal-fired power plants--can have a beneficial impact on citizens' health?

That is what we call in my business better results for less money.

If we don't like the rule, we will have to change the law.

We know what to do about sulfur, nitrogen, and mercury.

Further delay is simply reckless. The bottom line is, rules and regulations aren't making our children sick-- pollution is.