In Texas alone, the Lone Star State has numerous health advisories against eating mercury-laden fish in Texas waters.

The evidence is overwhelming. Mercury causes a reduction in IQ of children born through the mercury in their mother's body.

We pretty much shut down our State and we still would have been in non-attainment.

We have to work together and we need to work with the EPA to continue cleaning up our air.

Our decisions drive the installation of cost-effective, available pollution control equipments that save lives.

So many retirements are expected just simply as a result of inexpensive natural gas, but that gives us the opportunity at this point, frankly, to have an ability to bring cost-effective reductions to the table.

We can and should continue to reduce emissions, but we should do so in a way that protects families from skyrocketing electricity prices.

We all realize that we need electricity.

Did many of these coal plants actually retire?

Since coming to the U.S. Senate a decade ago, I have made it my mission to work with my colleagues to ensure that EPA has the right tools to clean our air.

I think Americans understand that there is just an enormous value to our quality of life to take pollutants out of the air.

We also need to be fair in the way that we generate that electricity.

Delaware is at the tailpipe of America.

Delaware's air quality challenge is caused by both local emissions and emissions from upwind sources.

I would like to begin my remarks this afternoon by congratulating several of our colleagues who have worked long and hard on this legislation, and their staffs who have worked equally long and hard: Senator Schumer and Senator Alexander; I…

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I thank you, Senator Collins, for your leadership, and I thank your colleagues in the Senate and House who recognized the great return on investment from the Special Diabetes Program.

We have certainly appreciated the focus that congressional members have brought to bear on this issue.

Just give us some clear examples. Just be real specific.

our job is oversight. Our job is to back up the work that is being done.

I just want to say, thanks so much for making the time to join us today and for providing really an excellent statement.

We have been trying for years to get the Department of Defense to give us audited financials--for years.

not all travel is bad. Senator Brown and I actually got to know each other on a congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that was a good learning experience for both of us

We need to find a way to do it better.