Well, we will have the money to pay for it. You still have not told me how you are going to pay for it, Mr. LaHood.

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

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

the earlier we can get on this, I think the better it is for everyone, including reducing the emissions.

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.

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?

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.

I think the two of you have covered the waterfront.