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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The legislation to provide transportation which would reduce greenhouse gases is enormously important, and there is no better time to focus on a matter of this importance than on this legislation.

I think the Federal Government needs to be a better partner in terms of the multi-modal transportation.

All right. Thank you.

I just think we have to do something about it while we have time.

when you put a price on carbon, all of these other energy sources become more competitive.

I have asked the Chairman to ask the EPA to re-run that analysis because it does not include some information that it should.

If we do not do anything, we will continue to see the kind of ice melts up in the North Pole.

I am impressed that two very different States, Utah and Oregon, and I have been privileged to visit them both, but two very different States are at the forefront of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.

I think engaging the community in a thoughtful way that looks at the values they want... makes a very large difference.

Our President was a guy named George Herbert Walker Bush, and as I recall, he proposed harnessing market forces to try to address the problems that we had with acid rain destroying forests and water and lakes and so forth in New England.