Ed Markey

The President is making a commitment which is completely and totally achievable and legal.

We are going to pledge that we will reduce our greenhouse gases by 26 to 28 percent by the year 2025.

There is nothing the President is doing which is not consistent with the law which we have.

The President is making this commitment to the world based upon the law.

It is time to revisit that statement.

My experience with nuclear power plants is that they age, and what has happened here is that each one of these plants keeps requesting an extension so that they can continue to operate longer and longer.

I think this is a very suspicious situation, Mr. Chairman, when Entergy has three reactors in the same category...

I think you should give them permission, and I think we will get the answer we need.

Every time a reactor gets placed in a lower safety category by NRC, it gets subjected to more inspections...

I think we do need to find some way, Mr. Chairman, of incentivizing all these agencies to move.

I'd love to be able to work with you and Senator Fischer and try to find some smart way.

We took it, and it created the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cell phone companies in America.

Spectrum is the oxygen of the wireless world, and we need more oxygen so that more innovation can occur.

It incentivizes Federal agencies to give up spectrum by allowing them to receive a portion of the spectrum auction proceeds.

We need to do something about it.

I think it is time for us to stand up and demand from Saudi and others a diplomatic resolution of this issue in a telescoped time frame.

If the Yemen war grinds on... we could continue to have indiscriminate targeting and an overly broad Saudi naval operation that obstructs humanitarian relief.

I fear that our failure to strongly advocate diplomacy in Yemen over the past 2 years... may put the viability of this critical partnership at risk.

I have been an advocate for increased cooperation with our security partners in the gulf with a particular emphasis on defensive systems.

As Senator Kaine said earlier, you say this at the outset, that there is no military solution.

What is our greatest leverage right now to try to force a negotiation between the parties?

Certainly, the external military intervention, which has been supported by U.S. logistics, intelligence, and arms supplies was a large escalation in the violence.

Should it be more robust?

I think we have to make sure it is locked. I think that is our responsibility as the global leader in nuclear nonproliferation.

Our agreements with partners need to preserve a meaningful U.S. role in such decisions.