There is no credible analysis that suggests that this bill will be a net job creator.

The impact this legislation will have on jobs, workers and families is the heart of my concern with the Waxman proposal.

That this bill will cost my State and the country jobs, I think, is without dispute.

Quite simply, we are not fostering an environment that is friendly to business.

The other thing that I think that we need to talk about, candidly, is that unless we can bring China and India and the other developing nations in to this new regime, no matter what we do, it will not matter.

It is interesting that we had a hearing with all of the coal producers yesterday, Senator Carper and I did, and they said that they are really concerned about the impact of this on manufacturing.

What everyone ought to understand is that REAL ID, 5 years later after enactment has not been implemented.

I want to point out that PASS ID does in fact require confirmation of Social Security numbers using the Social Security Online Verification database.

I will never forget when we had the hearing last year and Senator Akaka said we have to stop, throw it all out, begin again, get everybody involved, and do it right.

Madam Secretary, can you speak to the status of efforts to develop the systems, the databases that we need to verify passports and birth certificates?

But that is going to end, just like the $24 billion that we put in for highways in that bill, and it should have been something like $57 billion. It is going to be gone.