Ed Markey

Under your leadership the EPA has been working on common-sense policies to continue the gains in clean air, clean water and public health that our country has made during the last 40 years.

The renewable fuels standard is another policy where technology and innovation can help reduce carbon pollution.

The reason we know it is happening is that people have been using thermometers over all these years.

It seems that common-sense, scientifically based policy is being put on the books and we thank you so much for doing that.

I was the co-author of that language in 2007.

That is not weather; that is climate. There is a distinction between these things.

Last year, the Commerce Department ruled that oil companies could export a type of crude oil known as condensate.

I think condensate falls squarely within the crude oil family.

I think many members want to talk about how we can provide more privacy for Americans.

Well, I would like to work with you.

The proposal rightly focuses attention on the need to strengthen the privacy rights of Americans.

To be exporting crude oil at this time does not make much sense to me.

Over the last 8 months, the United States' gasoline prices have decreased by 45 percent.

Without question, human rights and an open Internet are intrinsically linked.

We need a decentralized form of open governance, multistakeholder governance, protections which are built in to make sure the system does not get captured.

In order to make sure that it will work and it cannot be compromised.

I voted for the 2001 resolution, and I am reminded that the U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan were dubbed 'Operation Enduring Freedom.'

I do not think people in that region view it that way right now. I think that has to be our goal, though.

Will it allow for unfettered deployment of ground troops? And ultimately, whether or not we are opening up Pandora's Box, especially in Syria.

I appreciate that, but it just seems to me that that is a 10-year proposition...

Now, that causes great problems to me and, I think, to many members of the committee because even in the absence of the passage of a new AUMF, the administration is maintaining that they have the authority to continue as they have for 13…

I think it is an important step forward.

Al-Shabaab has threatened the Mall of America, and that is clearly linking foreign policy to domestic homeland security.

Senator Markey very eloquently indicated that if we can do the algorithms that send messages around the world, we can have algorithms that protect us.

Only two of the 16 car companies who responded have developed any capability to detect and respond to a hacking attack in real time.