Political Quotes

“It is, and this is something that is understood. The term a ``no-brainer'' has been used several times because we do not have to think this through. One of the problems I have had--back when Republicans were a majority, I chaired the Environment and Public Works Committee. That has jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been making every effort to overregulate, to the extent--we know everybody knows of the spending crisis we have, the deficit and the debt and all that. They do not understand the overregulation actually costs us more than all these fiscal issues combined. I mentioned just a few of those. I can recall, before the Senator from North Dakota was in this body, back during the Kyoto treaty--in the Kyoto treaty, they were trying to get this through to have a type of cap and trade, something that they said somehow greenhouse gases were going to cause catastrophic global warming and all that. That went down the tubes. Then they started introducing legislation to do the same thing. Then we had--and I appreciate the honesty of Lisa Jackson, who is the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, when she came out and said: No, if we were to have this strictly in the United States, it is not going to reduce the emissions. This is kind of a long way around. The point I am trying to make is, it is very difficult for people to understand.…”