Ed Markey

Just wanted to give you the history of the American economy since 1929.

How can we help the Iraqi Government to better manage its energy resources and preserve a federal system that works for all Iraqis?

I agree with Ryan Crocker that it is not too late for diplomacy, but we just have to be intervening in a very, very aggressive way to make sure that diplomacy is truly given a chance to be successful.

Again, oil is always at the core of this? Cherchez the oil, that is pretty much what it is all about.

What further steps need to be taken in order to protect against ISIS taking over the Baiji refinery?

ISIS has taken over the oil fields near Mosul and Tikrit.

Massachusetts is now fourth in solar deployment in the United States.

While nationally electricity rates have gone up 13 percent over the last 6 years, they have actually gone down in Massachusetts by 6 percent.

Administrator McCarthy, just to clarify, you have the authority, is that not correct, under the Clean Air Act, to set a carbon pollution standard for power plants? Is that correct?

I think your plan is smart, it is effective, and it is ultimately going to be cost-effective.

We have seen a 23 percent expansion in the Massachusetts economy while we have had a cap and trade system in place in Massachusetts.

A lot of times you hear from people saying, it really hurts the economy of the United States when there is a clean air law that goes on the books, that it is too dangerous to run the risk of trying to make the air cleaner to reduce the…

We have now created 80,000 clean energy jobs in Massachusetts.

But we are seeing this huge increase in the number of people who don't die or don't get sick because of the Clean Air Act.

Isn't it very possible that the proposed rules that you are considering could wind up lowering electricity rates for people all across the Country?

I strongly support S. 2433, which offers an important and viable path forward for Ukraine's energy security.

If you wait for that on the battlefield, you will probably be dead.

I do not think that we should be exporting it.

If we can sell something and make more money and put that into the economy, then why not?

I do believe they are weapons of mass destruction, these storms.

Failure is not an option. They had to innovate. They had to be imaginative.

I think that there is another canard out there that renewable electricity is not working on the planet, whereas the reality is that last year 50 percent--listen to this: 50 percent of all new electrical generating capacity for the world…

They are dependent on a single massive supplier of resources.

But do you have to be a weatherman to predict that the defense of our Nation is going to be affected by the changes in the climate?

We do have a cap-and-trade system in the United States. We call it the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.