Sander Levin

I think that is not accurate. There is no obsession. There is a concern. And there is no nationalization, sir.

Clearly, any tax reform, which was true in 1986, will have to be bipartisan, it will have to be bicameral, and also it will require leadership from the executive, which I am sure will be forthcoming.

Clearly, there is a need for tax reform.

Next to me, Mr. Rangel was chairing the committee, introduced legislation to try to move ahead this issue of tax reform.

What I think we really need is more of these treaties.

These provisions have helped to safeguard investments held by U.S. citizens in dozens of foreign countries and protect U.S. investors from expropriation without compensation.

I think what you need to do if you don't like the mandate and you don't like the public plan is to come forth with a very specific proposal that would assure that there would no longer be 50 million uninsured in this country.

the problem is you don't like a mandate, you don't like a public plan, but you have no plan.

The purpose of this hearing is to look at legislation that was passed and to see its impact.

For the vast majority of people, that just isn't true.

I really don't know that, in view of the pressing conditions, it really makes much sense... to go after Mr. Uhalde on this issue of saved jobs.

I think--yes, Ms. Chan. I have just a few seconds. Because I think if we simply raise red flags, any hope of a bipartisan approach will end.

the only hope of having any bipartisan approach to this is if there is acknowledgment of two things: No. 1, that there is a climate crisis in the world

I just want to say, with due respect, that when you say your description here in your paragraph about charging selectively disfavored industries for arbitrarily rationing permits... will fall cruelly and disproportionately upon the poor.

I come from Michigan. I'm worried about the impact on the industrial sector.

I find that worrisome, because if there is that basic split to start with, you essentially, on the minority side, are leaving yourself out of any useful dialog about how we would implement a program that relates to the issue of global…

When you adopt a position that there is no problem, you are not going to be able to be effectively participate in discussion of its solution.

The facts do matter. And I wanted to ask you, one of the facts that came up related to the estimate as to the percentage of gross domestic product represented by taxes.

I thought the back-and-forth between you and the Ranking Member and others was a constructive discussion, the kind we need.

The only way we can solve the problem is phasing out coal.

The science is clear.

I do not think that using that as an excuse to do nothing is tenable.

I asked them what cooperating meant it entailed, and they told me that--they had--first they had told me before about that--that they had had me on tape saying things from the lunch that I had had with Linda at the Ritz Carlton the other…

as one who three times in the last 15 years helped to reauthorize the independent counsel law, I have been giving a great deal of thought to the way in which the independent counsel statute has functioned in Kenneth Starr's investigation…

on October 8th I made a statement on the Senate floor regarding the independent counsel law and Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton