Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank my colleague for yielding the floor. I invite him to stay. I want to talk about a renewable energy standard we need to have in an energy piece of legislation. I know it is something he is interested in, and has been, and it is something I am interested in. I think it is one of these commonsense approaches that you can get bipartisan support built for if you do it in a sensible fashion that doesn't raise utility rates; and that is a key issue to watch here--not to raise utility rights. I think if we have a robust enough--but not greedy--renewable energy standard that is prudent, workable, over a period of time, where companies can work into this, we can start moving forward on renewable energy in a sound economic fashion, and we can balance our energy needs with our environmental needs and our economic demands and not raise utility rates. That is why I was hoping that the leader, when he introduced his energy bill, would put forward a renewable energy standard. He didn't call for that. I do. If we get an energy bill on the floor--which I hope we do--I will certainly be supporting a renewable energy standard the likes of which we passed on a bipartisan basis through the Energy Committee. I am looking forward to supporting what we put forward in the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009, which was reported out of the committee on a strong bipartisan basis.…”