Kit Bond

Cap-and-trade would hit the Midwest and South with higher power bills.

Forcing farmers to pay this amount for cap-and-trade would be a bit more than the postage stamp we were told earlier.

Some say that cap-and-trade is an opportunity that will benefit farmers, but those claims are popping as quickly as they are made.

$11,000 rising to $30,000 per farm is a jaw dropping number for farmers.

After examining farm production costs at representative farms across the State, we found that Waxman-Markey would drastically increase farmer costs.

In President Obama's own words, electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket under cap-and-trade.

The American people and my Missouri constituents deserve to know how the legislation we consider will impose new energy taxes on them, kill their jobs, punish the Midwest and South, help China and India, and construct a new bureaucratic…

This past week, calls in my office ran 929 against cap-and-trade to 3 for.

We deserve better. And the people of America deserve better.

The strong signal that this bill seems to be sending to farmers in my State is that they are going to face higher costs for farm equipment, fuel, fertilizers, drying costs, transporting, inputs in and goods to the market.

We are looking forward, Dr. Chu, to having a real effort to reprocess the nuclear waste that we already have as France has so successfully shown that we can get rid of that waste using what we already have.

From what we have understood they have met every single one of those tests.

ARRA provides 10 percent for operating assistance on transit. Is it going to be the policy of the administration to support operating assistance in the future?

I'm awaiting additional information from the Department on what, if anything can be done about the Mexican Government's retaliation over the terms of NAFTA.

It will mean every pond and every puddle in the United States will be subject to Federal guidance.

There appears to be a troublesome communication gap between the administration, Department of Transportation, OMB and the Senate.

There should be conditions on grants to those communities on who and how they plan to pay for operating high speed rail in order to use these tax dollars.

We want to make sure that there's guidance there to assure that it's spent wisely.

Frankly, what will an additional $1 billion per year in grants do that the previous $8 billion did not?

If it's a flood, we're allowed to flood fight that with the local community.

But moving onto the Highway Trust Fund, if there's a fix are you--do you agree with the current Highway Transit split, 80/20?

Many of us believe that they should be replaced and expanded for tremendous economic, energy, and environmental benefits.

Going forward are you recommending because if you start--if we start subsidizing operating assistance we're going to have to have a whole lot larger budget allocation than we have.

In most cases however, we're not hearing anything substantive regarding the transportation budget from the administration.

I'd like to be able to have a discussion with the genius who made that decision.