So I thought to myself on many occasions what we should be doing as a Nation, from a public policy, security, energy, and so forth, is that we should take advantage of all of the natural resources that we have.

if we shut down everything we do, and China and India and Brazil and the other countries that have growing economies do not participate, the impact we are going to have is going to be very little.

the real issue is, maybe I have been around for too long, I was a mayor for 10 years and a Governor for 8 years, the old issue is, what can we do from a practical point of view to do something about it?

Let us treat it in the same way we treated other serious national security issues: arms control, trade, even human rights.

Any legislation that passes through the committee should both reduce our Nation's greenhouse gas emissions and make our Nation more energy secure.

Our security is in deep jeopardy today, and we had better wake up.

I would submit to you that experience shows that in the arms control area, for example, the unilateral measures, nuclear freezes, protestations of no first use, have never worked.

Unfortunately, national and security concerns have never been prominently considered in this committee.

I think one of the reasons why we voted, many years ago, against the Kyoto Agreement was that we were saying, you know, why should we do it when the rest of the folks out there are not going to participate in this?

I have long tried to encourage the harmonization of our energy, environment, economy and national security.

Well, that is going to be interesting because I know when the stimulus package came along, I did not vote for it, but I did feel that we did have a Federal responsibility in IDEA.

In other words, these are special things that you have got costs, but relatively speaking, I would think that a lot of other districts, urban districts, would have the same problems.