Ed Markey

Congress didn't write a get-out-of-any-regulation-forever-free card for fracking. Any attempt to extract any other reading out of the Congressional Record clearly fractures credulity.

Now, the more that we use the natural gas here in our manufacturing sector, the more likely that the products that are created with it will be made here and will be exported rather than letting the natural gas get into the hands of the…

I could envision a situation where the negotiation between Iran and the United States and the other countries in the world go sour, it is rejected in Congress, and one of the options is to bomb Iran and its nuclear programs, and I could…

How crazy is that, to export the oil we have when we are still importing five million barrels a day.

What if we start exporting oil out of our country? What would that mean for consumers in Massachusetts in terms of an increase in the price of gasoline?

I would just say this, Wright brothers, Elon Musk, that kind of innovation if we keep the rules in place.

This is a very important hearing. It kind of calls into question the can-do capacity of the United States in order to meet big challenges.

But again, we have to drive the innovation.

We can do it. We can do it. We have to believe in innovation.

I want to echo the praise of every other member thanking you, Senator Boxer, and Senators Carper and Vitter, for your excellent work, working together in partnership and bipartisan fashion.

We sincerely apologize to them, and extend our deepest and heartfelt sympathies.

Will you conduct a rulemaking to achieve that goal?

I recognize there are some issues about the concept that require further discussion, but I am convinced that this is the single most significant step we can take.

Well, I think that is very important. I think that will really give the information to the public which they need.

Will you do a rulemaking, Dr. Rosekind, in order to make sure that there is a formalized process to ensure that the information goes to your agency and then the agency discloses it to the public so that they can protect themselves?

We can't get back the 117 people whose lives were lost to the GM ignition switch defect; we can't get back the 8 people whose lives were taken by exploding Takata airbags.

You can look at the families who lost their parents, children, spouses, or siblings because of these defects, and you can tell them that you did everything you could to make sure that their lives weren't lost in vain.

We need to prioritize safety and ensure that these issues are resolved.

You have reduced the electricity bills for low and moderate income people?

There are real implications for the 12 million Americans who already have respiratory illnesses?

I think there is a reason to be very optimistic.

What can additional pollution that we send up, uncontrolled mean for him and for those others of millions of victims across the Country?

I am afraid too many people are just pessimistic in general. They are just not optimistic about our ability as Americans to be the global leader, to use new technologies, to invest in the future, protect young people and our economy at the…

There is real sickness, not metaphorical sickness, that is occurring because of global warming.

I certainly agree it is a major public health problem facing the planet.