Political Quotes

“The fact is, I happen to support limiting or capping carbon. I will support a price on carbon. I do not support cap and trade as a mechanism, as a way of doing that, or giving Wall Street the ability to trade carbon securities. But that is another side to this. Because we have not been able to do climate change legislation and develop a consensus on broader climate change legislation in this country, I have always felt we should bring the Energy bill to the floor which was, in fact, bipartisan and which would, in fact, do the very things we would want done to limit carbon. Take energy from the wind--that limits carbon. You develop energy without putting carbon into the air, just as an example. I know Senator Reid is trying very hard to do a couple of things. No. 1, he is trying to get this session moving on issues that matter. He has a lot of things on his plate. The Senator from Kansas knows--I am not being partisan when I say this--that a lot of things have been blocked, even motions to proceed. So the Senator from Nevada, Mr. Reid, has a difficult job getting legislation to the floor and getting them moving. He has indicated he wants to bring to the floor an energy bill that includes a lot of items with which the Senator from Kansas and I would agree. We need to do something about oilspill regulation and safety and try to address those issues in the right way, and we do need to address a number of the other issues the Senator from Nevada suggested.…”