Dick Lugar

I’m hopeful that you will make comments as we proceed.

Evaluating whether the money flowing to these areas represents the proper mix for the 21st century has not been a strength of the budget process to date.

I was dismayed to read in the press yesterday an article depreciating Rose Gottemoeller's presence.

I hesitated and desisted from putting this into the Pakistan Kerry-Lugar bill for fear of being accused of an earmark for Pakistan.

The failures of the budget process usually have left funding for diplomacy and for foreign assistance short of what is necessary.

Secretary Clinton is presenting today a foreign affairs budget that reflects an increase of roughly 9 percent over the previous year.

We are pleased to have the opportunity to examine the State Department budget and ask fundamental questions about the Obama administration's foreign policies.

I appreciate this because the intrusive inspections which occur under the START treaty are absolutely essential for us to know what is occurring with Russian weapons of mass destruction.

It's received over the years very strong American support and it's remarkable because it is a multireligious and a diverse college.

I think we need to do a whole lot more.

Our credibility with the rest of the world depends on this type of inspection and the maintenance of the treaty.

The sooner we act, it reduces the probability that we have adaptation costs and issues in the future.

I just would add to your compliment of our witness, Jim Rogers.

It's this kind of individual that conceivably can bring together a piece of work that, in our democracy, with all the complexities, and 50 States, and so forth, might happen.

There is excitement about this.

It wouldn't be free or easy or quick, but it had to be fair, what I really meant is, yes, it's going to cost more money.

People were very proud of the fact that that's going to occur there in Muncie, Indiana.

The cost of addressing climate change will increase, the longer we delay taking action.

We have sort of a threshold in which the broad use of climate change, as a term, or cap and trade, as a mechanism have not caught on.

the American political debate must be sufficiently informed to reach some conclusions about what steps are economically and politically plausible.

96 percent of our electricity comes from coal, and we need to make the transition to the low carbon world without having to pay twice for the transition.

The concentrations----

I come back to the thought that many people who are my constituents in Indiana really are sold on the idea of conserving energy.

The key to that is really the same way we did it under the Clean Air Act amendments in 1990, where we adopted cap and trade.

the 450 to 550 parts per million is where we need to be by 2050, and that means an 80-percent reduction in this country.