Ed Markey

There is no question that his views represent how a lot of people think about this.

We are simultaneously talking about exporting the most precious of all raw products, and it will go to China because they will be the high bidder

Is that not a national security concern if we do not have sufficient domestic refining capacity and are reliant on foreign nations to provide us with critical fuels like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel?

Lifting the crude export ban would reduce the investment in the U.S. refining sector by nearly $9 billion over the next decade

Consumers are saving at the pump because U.S. oil prices are lower than the international benchmark price.

We cannot control where this oil or natural gas is going to go. We are a system that allows the--Rex Tillerson to have his hand on the tiller at ExxonMobil to direct where oil and natural gas goes.

That could translate into a de facto energy tax on American consumers, businesses, and our economy of up to $62 billion a year.

The Department of Energy--our Department of Energy--has said that exporting less than half of the volumes of LNG already approved could increase U.S. prices for American consumers by up to 54 percent.

I have long warned this committee about the consequences for American consumers and our economy of large-scale exports of American natural gas.

I wish to begin by extending my deepest condolences and prayers to the families and loved ones of those lost in the heinous church shooting in Charleston, SC. Our hearts break for the people of Charleston and especially for the…

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I agree with you. I think it is the new frontier for doing good but it is also the new frontier for potentially endangering Americans, especially children, and we have to do a lot more about it.

I have not seen any of those concerns bear out.

There are many in the industry who are afraid that there would be filing of fraudulent complaints about their competitor's products or inaccurate consumer complaints that would damage corporate profits unfairly.

When Congress last reauthorized the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2008, my language to create a public consumer product safety database was included.

Safety should never be compromised for profit.

But there is no uniform enforcement, Mr. Gray.

The lack of a uniform Federal standard requiring the safe disposal of coal ash has resulted in over 200 cases of water contamination in addition to major, major spills.

For each witness, do any of you disagree that coal ash should be prohibited from being dumped into drinking water sources?

In the town of Pines of northern Indiana, hundreds of thousands of tons of coal ash was used to landscape peoples' backyards.

Is it true that the State of Tennessee, home of the legendary breach of coal ash disposal pond that released 1.1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge that literally buried more than 300 acres and filled nearby waterways, still does not…

Is it not true that there is nothing in the House bill that would prohibit disposal of coal ash directly into drinking water aquifers?

Although the EPA rule is not as robust as what I or many others would have liked, it does, for the first time, create a Federal standard to protect human health and environment.

We understand the importance and the criticality to PTC deployment.

We are fully engaged with all the parties, including with Amtrak and the freights.