Ed Markey

The planet is dangerously warming, and the science is clear.

The United States, as the historically largest contributor to greenhouse gases, ... we have a responsibility to be the leader to reduce the risk to this planet.

Human beings are the most significant new contributor to the dangerous warming of the planet, and the science is clear.

There is no excuse, so just tell us who they are, what their excuses are, and then we will try to reinforce it.

Because the ones who are least responsive are the ones that are just turning a blind eye to the atrocities being committed.

We have an ability to begin to think creatively about all of the other relationships that we have with that country

I think it is important for us to know.

Are there two other countries that you might want to tell us, if you are going to prioritize as a country, where we should be focusing that you think have been particularly bad in this area.

Well, you are saying Congo is there as a country that has already received special attention.

Where countries are not willing, as you say, where they do not have the gumption, those countries should be barred from peacekeeping altogether.

But I do not think you can solve the problem until those leaders in the justice system in the home countries have the proper training and gumption to enforce the laws.

Can I ask you, General, how we deal with the countries from which these soldiers come?

The net effects of it are healthier, cleaner society, and many more jobs that were created in solving the problem.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much.

So that is kind of exciting.

May I just say to Chairman Inhofe, I was an original co-sponsor of that bill in 1980.

These kids are there, readying to go to solve the problem.

So once you set the goals for social or economic or health or environment outcomes, then all of a sudden you get this incredible explosion of entrepreneurial activity, which solves the problem.

I will tell you that that is actually more jobs than the coal mining industry right now.

I just think it is very exciting to our country, and the potential is really unlimited in this sector.

We only have 3 minutes. I want to give you, Mr. Knapp, and Dr. Reichert a chance to deal with this question...

Thank you, Chairman Rounds. Thank you, Chairman Inhofe, for having this very important hearing today.

The wrong way to do it is to have the Shia militias do it. In the last statements from the Iraqi government, we, the Shia militias intend to be at the forefront. That would be disastrous.

I think that this is the single largest impediment to stability in Iraq.

Let the Sunnis control it. Let the good people run their own institutions, and then we will have some confidence that the people in Mosul will rise up and fight.