John Kerry: “If we have a statute--the underlying statute suggests that, for reasons of the health of our citizens, we want to…”

“If we have a statute--the underlying statute suggests that, for reasons of the health of our citizens, we want to achieve a minimum reduction in emission standards to 10 parts per million--a minimum standard. But the legislation empowers the agency to go further. It is a minimum standard. Now, under your language, a measurement would be made as to the benefit of the minimum standard, but it would also----”