Ed Markey

I am not confident that I can support this agreement. I think it needs additional strengthening if we are going to be confident that the policy that we have right now does not help China far, far more than it is going to harm the long-term…

I think it has served us very well. And we are held accountable.

And finally, Director Ashe, last week my colleagues on the other side of the aisle passed out a bill from this committee that would raise barriers to EPA using science to inform its decisions.

It is one thing to say that they want to drill for America, but to drill and simultaneously be saying that we have a surplus in America, let's export our oil while drilling on this special land is a big question for the Country, very big…

So several of the bills being considered today will likely cause the cost of managing the Endangered Species program to increase dramatically.

There will be no graciousness gap that opens up in this hearing.

That is a very important issue to me.

We just have to put the right incentives on the books, and then we can just watch this whole area explode.

So these issues are central to us. But Mark Twain used to say that an expert is anyone who lives further than 500 miles from the problem.

I am glad that you are leading that effort. I think it is absolutely critically important.

I love the progress that we have made with China and with other countries beginning to step up to the plate.

There were readings in the ocean off of Massachusetts in January, 21 degrees warmer than normal in January off of the ocean in Massachusetts.

I was glad to work with my colleagues on this committee last year to move the Port State Agreement that will help combat illegal fishing.

Wildlife trafficking is a growing crisis. Not only are there species that are facing extinction, but we have seen a trend for this wildlife trafficking to become more of a security issue

We do this for a number of reasons, one, because Israel is our close friend and ally...

I agree with you, and that was the intent of the 1990 Act, it was to give more flexibility.

I added, actually, an energy efficiency section to the Clean Air Act to give more flexibility to the administrator at the EPA.

Pope Francis believes, actually, that science is the answer to our prayers.

We are in a big moment. Pope Francis is about to issue an encyclical on climate change.

It is just--it is recognition. You know, you can touch their spirit, at least. You know? It keeps hope alive in a family.

If there was a Web site, then people could say, 'Hey, the name is not up on that Web site. I want my family member up on that Web site, too.'

I just want to get an answer to that. A Web site, a--something that is transparent, something that actually would bring accountability.

Put the names up there.

Should we not be requesting that transparency?

This is 20 years post-NAFTA.