"I commend you for the legislation that you have introduced."
"I think this country has made the right decision in ensuring that hard-working people, who lose their jobs through no fault of their own in an economic downturn, have some support until they can get t..."
"It's also economically the right thing to do, because if you're not paying your mortgage and your house goes into foreclosure, that means one more house in the neighborhood that's under water, and it ..."
"I'm very proud of the fact that the Congress took this action. It was the right thing to do from a moral perspective, and it's the right thing to do from an economic perspective, and now we've just go..."
"The administrative funds, have those been put to use, or has the timeframe just been too short?"
"I do think it is important too as we debate to figure out, as that is a threshold question, if you don't believe that's a problem."
"It is important as we talk about the potential job loss, also to talk about the potential job creation."
"It's fair and simple, and we can have a mechanism to get the funds back on a realtime basis to draw a real connection in the consumer's mind to the fact they are being compensated for whatever additio..."
"So, I would ask all our colleagues to take a look at that essentially universal rebate proposal."
"This is the problem. Your argument has two components. One is you don't think it's a problem, global climate change."
"Yes, we obviously can't get to where we want if we believe there is a serious problem just by doing what we are doing."
"the only economically viable approach to ensure that Congress is able to protect low-income and vulnerable communities from potentially higher energy costs associated with a cap-and-trade program."