Ed Markey

When President Trump repudiated the Paris, he repudiated all our partners in the international community, indeed, the very idea of an international community.

I think it is important that the United States maintain its seat at the table on the conversations around and how to address threats of climate change, which do require a global response. No one country is going to solve this alone.

This 34 percent cut in this budget is just disgraceful. It really is going to put children all over our country at great unnecessary risk that could have been avoided if the President didn't cut that budget for children to be protected.

Well, here President Trump is going to make sure that children in schools all across the country are going to be more exposed to PCBs in their classrooms, and saying to States and local communities, good luck, you take it over.

How will it be possible, Ms. Bodine, for the Trump administration to deal with this kind of exposure to PCBs of students in cities and towns all across our country if there is a 34 percent reduction in the EPA budget to be able to ensure…

In the President's budget, President Trump cuts the budget by 34 percent to be able to deal with these issues.

The cost of the fire could be upwards of $2 trillion nationally.

The consequences of such an event would be absolutely catastrophic.

The NRC has drastically underestimated the risks from a fire at a spent fuel pond.

If they can't figure out how to do it for their own passengers, then to give them, you know, the key seats on this kind of a board, it seems to me, given the record of safety of the existing system, would be, from my perspective…

We're going to need to pass legislation so there's a definition of what is fair, what is reasonable, what is proportionate.

I think as we do this FAA reauthorization, Senator Blumenthal and I are intending on ensuring that we make an amendment that gives passengers rights, gives passengers protections.

They're kind of just captured. But today, several airlines actually charge $200 to change or cancel, and that might actually be greater than the value of the ticket which the person actually purchased.

So you want us to abide by the rules of physics?

What standards do you want to have set here that then we would say, 'Well, these are what we believe are legitimate standards'?

Yes. I think UAE, in particular, has done an excellent job of establishing a common-sense approach...

I believe if you just take those simple values and put it into a light-touch, almost a registration-based regime, that it would function and function well.

I think that the irreducible standard here is one of non-interference, of non-harmful interference...

Number one is not abrogating or threatening any of our international obligations under treaty.

So that should be a standard?

There should be a presumed right of commerce in space just like there's a presumed right of commerce in aviation.

So let's go to what, briefly, each of you might think are standards that you think should be put in place domestically that then could be used as precedents for international standards that our competitors around the world would then…

Permissionless innovation is a concept. You don't want to stifle innovators, people that are dealing with sophisticated technology, with overly burdensome regulation.

By being the first mover, we can be the leader, and I think that what Congress does here is going to be extremely important going forward.

That's always the issue for the first mover. There are fast followers, sometimes even faster followers. So you have to think through the consequences of that.