Charles Rangel

How much revenue beyond the initial $646 billion do you really expect the American public to pay?

It would seem to me that it would be an affront to this Committee... if the Administration would just come and give us a guesstimate.

With all due respect, this is very exciting and entertaining, but Members are waiting.

you might want to see how we can work tax reform with health care reform.

It is going to be very hard for me to believe that this is not the equitable way to go.

We want to cooperate and get the input of the minority because I, for one, know and care for them enough.

The inconvenience and, indeed, increase in cost to the consumer will not be considered by the Chair to be a Democratic-Republican issue.

I am very anxious to get a reduction of the corporate tax rates so that we can be competitive.

Quite frankly, I find it difficult for me to find any criticism, but, indeed, a lot of political courage for the President to actually say that he is willing to have the country know that war is hell.

But what about the Gulf Coast energy jobs that we have today? This will kill those jobs.

Everyone says that you should not increase taxes during a time of recession, so we move into 95 percent of taxpayers who would have it reduced.

This is a crisis in our country. A historic role for the Congress and our Committee...

It is clear that we are going to be asking some severe sacrifice from our constituents...

Of course, the whole concept of a green society and new jobs and new scientific research projects is something that is going to make this a better and stronger country.

The fact that we inherited it doesn't mean that we don't have the responsibility to work our way out of this.

No one can challenge the fact that we are taking the education of America--the access to education to a historic high.

I have some very deep concerns. In fact, today I received a letter from a Louisiana small business leader who is worried that tens of thousands of Gulf Coast energy jobs will be lost under this plan.

I believe the Administration has gotten off to a promising start. I enjoyed working with Secretary Geithner on the economic recovery package and look forward to hearing him present an overview of the President's budget.

I am very anxious to find out at this hearing and subsequent hearings as to what the differences will be as we approach this very serious economic crisis.

I do hope that you would continue to be generous with your time, advice and direction, and we will try to make certain that we can avoid all of the Committees calling you down to say the same things.

Thank you. Let me thank the three of you on behalf of the Committee and share with you the thinking of the Chair and the Committee.

the third world will develop with affordable energy. Making energy more expensive for them will limit their ability to grow and develop.

Dr. Hansen, whether we talk about a carbon tax or cap and trade, enormous amounts of moneys are to be raised as some type of deterrent or penalty on the energy producing company, which means, of course, that for the consumer, there will be…

We hope that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle will cooperate in trying to set up some type of a taskforce.

These objectives must be based on science.