Byron Dorgan

The successful deployment of CCS could reduce overall costs of reductions by up to 97%!

I want you to do it as quickly as we can, but I want you to do it right.

All of us want you to use this in a very significant way to develop the answers that we need.

I understand that reducing carbon emissions in a very significant way is important, but my concern is that we make sure that we have targets and timetables as well as the funding for the scientific inquiry.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, that was passed by Congress last year, included $100 million in funding that I secured for projects for the beneficial use of carbon.

I think many share the urgency that he feels about moving ahead.

I think the potential of beneficial use is very substantial.

I happen to favor a proposal for a wires charge in order to raise that funding.

CURC fully endorses the concept of such a fee-based program to support the demonstration of CCS.

My sense is that we are not going to have an energy future without the use of coal, but the use of coal has to be substantially different than the way we have used coal in the past.

I opposed it at the time. But we need to find a way, in my judgment, to restore that which always existed.

I love the free market. I think it is the best allocator of goods and services that I have ever seen, but it needs a referee and you are a regulator.

I do not want over-regulation, but I want you to use the right touch to make sure that the referee is doing what the referee must do to keep the free market free.

The marketplace would pick winners and losers.

I mean the opposition to that is to say, no, we are for a discrimination policy.

I think there are two ways ahead as well. One is using your existing authority.

I do not want over-regulation for sure.

It really comes down to the point of the head here that we have always had a nondiscrimination requirement.

I want you to make things happen and make good things happen. So I support what you are trying to do.

I am talking about the people at the top. The question is, What about the people at the bottom, the people who work for a living, who like their jobs, want to have a better future for themselves and their children, but who discovered that…

I included that provision which required DOD and FAA to develop a national solution for military U.S. access in the National airspace.

I wrote the provision that requires Section 935 of the National Defense Authorization Act.

Culturally sensitive but sustained efforts with multiple approaches offer our best hope to get students into treatments.

Suicide in Native American youth is rising and is an absolute crisis.

I would like to acknowledge Chairman Dorgan's leadership on this issue and the Committee's effort to improve access to healthcare for American Indians and Alaska Natives.