The process you just outlined for us, it sounds like it could take a while, even without lawsuits. Is that a fair statement?

I think we do all support the need for legislation and the need to support additional trading.

Do you believe that legislation with targets and timetables for mercury, for nitrogen oxide, for sulfur dioxide, could give certainty for environmental reductions and business decisions?

I have also introduced legislation on limiting carbon for dealing with global warming, but we really don't know what to do with carbon yet.

In the States, do you have any idea what the average reduction requirements are?

We are moving aggressively to meet that commitment in hopes of proposing a rule in early 2010.

I agree with a good deal that Senator Voinovich has said. I especially agree with his comment.

I have faith that the EPA can write new and stronger rules to regulate these pollutants.

this will help provide the legal continuity that the business community needs to actually invest the billions of dollars

The best way to do that is through comprehensive energy legislation.

We have each year, Ms. McCarthy I am told, 600,000 babies born whose moms have high levels of mercury.

We think it is more cost-effective than doing these regulations piecemeal.

Now is the time to be bold and to go forward.

the most immediate threat to Pakistan right now was internal.

There is a great opportunity for us to help relocate from the Swat Valley and other places where people have been displaced.

I came away believing we have a window of opportunity to arrest deteriorating security conditions in both countries.

We cannot allow extremists to destabilize this nuclear armed state that has the world's second largest Muslim population.

The possibility that Islamic radicals could destabilize and undermine the Pakistani state has become, frankly, all too real.

Both India and Pakistan must leapfrog the hurdles of historical distrust and conflicts to fight the common enemies of poverty, terror, and religious extremism.

the importance of reducing tensions between Pakistan and India

My hope going forward is that the efforts that have been started before in the 1990s and even in this decade that they will not just begin anew, but will begin with our strongest support and encouragement.

this was maybe a unique opportunity--hopefully not the only opportunity--for some kind of rapprochement between Pakistan and India

they cannot allow the Taliban to come back in. This would be, I think, sort of devastating for security in the country.

I think it was Einstein who said in adversity lies opportunity.

It is imperative that we minimize as greatly as we can any civilian casualties.