Barack Obama was just a mere mortal.

I am glad you got that in before Senator McCain joined us.

we are in full mode on health care reform. I am going to stick to that subject this afternoon. I have heard my colleagues say a couple of things I am going to emphasize, but I am going to have a different take on some of this as well. It…

Our role--what can we do to foster that sort of development? My question is what can we do at the Federal level to help encourage and nurture and foster those kinds of activities?

I want to turn to the issue of looking for opportunities to find multi-modal solutions to our transportation challenges.

Clearly, doing infrastructure, we need to do infrastructure, as I think most of you have emphasized in your testimony, because it is an investment in the future.

I believe that continued reliance on the gas tax is really not sustainable

I guess I would be remiss if I did not mention before we leave here that the vast majority of your agents and employees do a great job.

I believe having the authority to require polygraph examinations as part of the periodic reinvestigation process would be helpful.

We are going to keep the record open for 15 days, and there will be some other questions from other Subcommittee Members.

A majority of Americans--more than 186 million people--live in areas where there is enough air pollution to endanger their lives or threaten their health.

Thank you, Senator Voinovich, as well.

Do you think that it might be possible for us to meet a tighter mark for NOx in the East?

We believe that this is an important step forward and we look forward to working with you on it.

I want to very much thank Senator Alexander for being my partner in this endeavor now for years.

OK. Thanks very much.

We appreciate your leadership and your energy, the energy that you have brought to Delaware and clean energy, clean energy to our environment into our economy.

One of the virtues of having to set some targets out there, to say these are our mission's targets, is it provides, we hope, the kind of certainty that we are looking for.

I think that clearly it is a step that helps address some of the concerns that we have to get into attainment as quickly as possible to bring the benefits of clean air to our residents as fast as we possibly can.

How do we strengthen our mission standards, how to reduce the emissions of unhealthy substances into our air, and at the same time not impede our economic growth?

Now what if instead of having those plants all co-located together in one part of Sussex County they had one or two in Sussex County, another north in Kent County, and another one all the way further north in New Castle County.

As Senator Carper often says and said this morning, Delaware sits at the end of America's tailpipe.

I am going to ask for unanimous consent to enter for the record a number of letters of support for our legislation.

One of the virtues of a trading system and using market, the highest market forces, to enable us to ratchet down emissions is we give flexibility, in this case to the utilities.

I'd like to first thank Senators Alexander and Klobuchar for working with me on S. 2995.