Tom Carper

Work with the Army, support this initiative financially, and help us, help the Army to get this system back off of rain delay and get it completed, sir.

Obviously, we need to do everything we can to help the people of the region, and we need to make sure that we do everything we can to get a restoration plan that repairs the damage that has been done.

As Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Water and Wildlife Subcommittee, I have been to the Gulf and seen first-hand the environmental and economic impacts of the BP oil disaster.

Maybe we can hammer something out here before you are ready to ride off into the sunrise.

We are saying with this legislation that the President is going to sign in about 30 minutes that agencies, all Federal agencies have to report their improper payments.

We are looking at a budget deficit; we basically doubled our Nation's debt from 2001 to 2008.

We must continue to make progress and clean up our air as we address climate change.

We do not support the so-called fix proposed by Mr. Korleski.

Senator Carper, I would urge you to insist that EPA provide you a comparable map for your bill to see what it would do with respect to attainment in these same areas.

We very much appreciate your being here today. Thanks for your work. Our best to Ohio.

Thank you for your leadership, Senator Carper, and for the opportunity to testify today on this important transport proposal of EPA's.

I am anxious to hear the testimony of each of our witnesses.

I think there is good will on all sides. Let's make as much progress as we can.

Will companies or will utilities be able to bank emissions in the future?

Are you worried about the utilities increasing their emissions before 2012, sort of emitting their bank, if you will, because the banks aren't worth much of anything?

Is that an area where perhaps that could be brought to bear?

When you state that the EPA plans to move forward on an additional Transport Rule next year to help States meet the new ozone standards that will be finalized, I think, in August, are you saying that EPA will be looking to tighten the…

We support passage of S. 2995, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 2010, sponsored by Senator Carper, you and Senator Alexander.

The benefits will far outweigh the estimated annual cost of $2.8 billion.

And you suggest that the health and welfare benefits could be quantified. And you put a range on it, $120 billion to $290 billion annually.

On page 2 of your testimony you talk about how the proposed Transport Rule would prevent 14,000 to 36,000 premature deaths annually.

We will have two rounds of questions, 5 minutes each. I want to go back, the first question, just to go back to a point raised by Senator Voinovich.

These pollutants affect the health of millions of Americans.

The bipartisan Clean Air Act Amendments of 2010 is cosponsored by 6 Republicans, 8 Democrats, and an Independent Senator.

My concerns lead me to believe that this EPA action is even more reason for Congress to pass the Carper-Alexander legislation that would establish a national program with stronger permanent reductions in SO2 and NOx emissions and eliminate…