Tom Carper

In 1975, we passed the first CAFE legislation.

I think this is something that we should be utilizing in all of the developments of offshore wind.

I just want to say to our Governors, as a recovering Governor, welcome.

The cheapest form of energy is the energy that we do not use.

If we are interested in meeting our energy needs, nuclear has got to be part of it, wind has to be part of it, solar has to be part of this, clean coal has to be part of this, and conservation.

A number of us on this panel, certainly my colleague Lamar Alexander and I, are strong advocates of nuclear energy.

We need to put a price on carbon and a cap on carbon emissions

I want to say very clearly about the CBO study of Waxman-Markey, which is respected, that for the lowest income quintile...

We are going to be building a DuPont windmill farm off the coast of Delaware, the first in the Nation.

Congressman Rick Boucher... told us earlier this week it is about the cost of a postage stamp for most families.

I believe that they have crafted the legislation so that the lowest 20 percent income families would basically get a pass in terms of any increase in their energy costs because of this legislation.

I believe that in the legislation that the House has sent, it is not a perfect bill, I am not here to say it is a perfect bill.

Maybe we need a nuclear power mandate for States.

If it is not a renewable power, maybe we need a clean energy mandate for base load power.

It worked. It worked then, and I think it is regarded as maybe one of the most, maybe the most, successful environmental program that we have had in this country.

I never heard much of cap-and-trade, in fact, until 1990 when a fellow named George Herbert Walker Bush, our President, in signing the Clean Air Act into law, called for establishing a cap-and-trade regimen.

I find it ironic, as some of colleagues demonize cap-and-trade, that to the extent that I studied anything as an undergraduate at Ohio State, I studied economics.

I agree entirely with Senator Collins. We are creating a litigation magnet by creating a statutory right to fly without ID.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We will break for dinner around 6:30 p.m.

I would agree. As I said before, Portlanders, we like to think we are unique. But in many ways we are typical Americans.

I think that it is very clear that you are very knowledgeable of the role of the trucking industry and freight movement.

The environmental and economic advantages of building new transit systems with freight rail capacity and smarter development are, I think, pretty well established.

Those 2 hours went by quickly, did they not?

I think we have seen that. And I want my children, and their children, to be able to walk to school, to be able to bike along the streets, and to be able to feel that sense of community that we all felt when we were growing up.

I think it is probably for both of you.