They see these mandates coming down from Washington, and again, they are in a global--most of these people are on a global marketplace.

The one-size-fits-all energy efficiency mandates ignore the substantial diversity of preferences, financial resources, and personal situations.

I am honored to be here with Senator Shaheen, who has been a leader on efficiency during her tenure on the Energy Committee with me.

The greatest gains in energy efficiency come from the private sector in a growing economy.

The bill that Senator Shaheen and Senator Portman will offer, I think provides a promising path that is worthy of our consideration.

It was, and it thankfully remains, a bipartisan effort to make progress in an area where you all have pointed out, agreement is imminently possible.

You said there were a number of reasons why the market warranted an approach of setting a price of pollution as cost effective.

I represent 60,000 manufacturing jobs in northwest, west central Ohio that we--some of our companies are very large, some are very small.

The number one thing I have always heard from everybody out there, it is on regulatory issues is the number one concern.

We need energy, and we need very competitive energy to be able to compete.

We regulate everything in energy generation, don't we?