"I am so pleased to be here to give my unqualified endorsement for Doug Wilson as a nominee to this new position."
"Your testimony this morning...reinforced the fact that you have a breadth of knowledge and experience to be an outstanding Secretary of State."
"I have been a big fan of your public service to the country for a very long time as well as your broad knowledge and expertise in this area."
"How we address energy policy in the future is going to be a critical part of getting this economy moving again."
"We need to think very carefully about the economic implications of putting forward a Federal mandate that all states must comply with."
"I just had an auction with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative which I think is one of the first efforts in the country."
"From our perspective the Federal authorities need to be involved."
"We can completely understand why citizens in that state should not feel like they should be paying all the burden when actually everybody in the country is benefiting."
"Dick Cheney has emerged from his bunker to engage in partisan attacks, false and distorted attacks."