Ed Markey

Senator Markey. All I am really trying to clarify is that you will not be using income status or marital status, zip code information in any way to make any of these----

I am, and the other members are deeply concerned that if airlines are allowed to engage in personalized pricing, they could discriminate amongst consumers.

I believe that practice is discrimination.

Eighty percent of small business owners, a clear majority, favor the rules, clarifications in wetlands protection set forth in the Clean Water rule.

Cleaning up our waterways takes sustained efforts.

There are downstream States that need protection and there is very substantial under inclusion in the proposed rule as well.

That is important to get out there.

That is why a strong Clean Water Act is still important today.

Close on 5 years ago, Rhode Island had very significant flooding. Climate change is changing the rain patterns in the northeast.

To me, the notion that the U.S. Government has no role in protecting a downstream State and its members from upstream pollution is an extraordinary idea.

The conferees fully intend that the term `navigable waters' be given the broadest possible constitutional interpretation.

More than half of U.S. rivers are still unsuitable for aquatic life.

It is time to restore much-needed certainty, consistency, and effectiveness to the Clean Water Act.

The Clean Water Act is one of America's great success stories.

I think it is quite clear that there are entities within China who continue to sell materials that could have dual-use application into this international nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles marketplace.

I think it is very, very important.

So can you give the committee a report on the status of that investigation and when they intend on closing the investigation?

I am going to work very hard to make sure the conditions that are attached to this reflect the seriousness with which we should take the lack of seriousness that the Chinese Government has evinced in their nuclear nonproliferation policy.

Thank God we did not transfer it before he fell. That was Jimmy Carter policy.

We are here today because we short-changed nonproliferation policy.

We have to attach conditions to this that do not allow them to derive the commercial long-term benefits of having access to our top-of-the-line nuclear technology.

During the 1990s China supplied Iran with uranium and during the past 3 years, both the intelligence community and the State Department have expressed continuing concern the Chinese Government and private entities have proliferated…

What I worked for was the imposition of two conditions before implementation. The first was the preparation of a report examining Chinese proliferation risks, and second, presidential certification that China was following sufficient…

Back in 1985, I was the chairman of the energy subcommittee in charge of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.

Not yet shown the political will to control adequately.