George Voinovich

The whole idea behind cap-and-trade is that they send a price signal to encourage emission reductions.

I am real concerned about it because they feel that they are going to have to close some of the facilities based on the proposed rule that you are talking about.

Yes. Again, thank you for being here.

Thanks for holding the hearing. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today, and I look forward to their testimony.

Do you think we would be better off if we got away from hiring contractors and went to our own policing?

If you get the lowest bid, you get the lowest quality.

Do you ever think they will have the supervisory people to make sure that we are not getting poor performance from these people?

Isn't there some commercial program that they could use that is off the shelf instead of starting from scratch and building their own?

Does FPS today have the capacity to evaluate a building in terms of the location of the building and protecting the peripheral area?

So from what I can see, you would almost have to start from scratch.

I think the two of you have covered the waterfront.

In this regard, I continue to have concerns with EPA's evaluation of legislation that was recently passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

But the most important thing is that we have actual legislative language to work with and have the time necessary to have our concerns addressed in the committee.

I hope that these hearings continue to inform us about the policies that may be implemented to address global climate change.

I am hopeful that it will serve as the beginning of a very serious commitment on the part of this committee to recommend an intelligent and informed course of action on the issue of addressing climate change to the full Senate.

I think that whole concept, from a psychological point of view, is going to have a very, very negative impact on everybody.

I am going to work my you know what off in the next couple of months.

What the Country needs is to know that within the next 5-year period we are going to make a comprehensive commitment to the infrastructure.

I was a mayor. I was a Governor. I have supported tax increases.

Does this Administration hear from the folks out there that are in the business, that have all come together and said, we need a robust highway bill now?

I believe that they will support a gas tax.

From a psychological point of view, right now we have got to get people to believe that the glass is half full and things are going to get better.

There is a man over on the House side named Jim Oberstar that has had over 50 hearings and spent over 2 years on this.

We do not have to have an emergency spending. We do not have to borrow the money. We are going to pay for it.

I would like you to comment on the 2005 SAFETEA-LU piece of legislation and the fact that, because of the cost of gas, oil and steel, how that 285 has, in terms of today's dollars, evaporated in terms of what it buys.