Political Quotes

“One of the most serious environmental problems in our country and in the world is the excessive emissions of carbons into the atmosphere. Senator Brownback and I have worked for a number of years together on a bipartisan basis because we believe it is time for the U.S. Congress to begin moving together on a bipartisan basis to deal with this serious environmental problem. Therefore, the amendment we worked out with Senator Harkin and Senator Lugar sets up what is known as a carbon sequestration program, a program that allows us to store these carbons in trees, in agricultural products, and in the land. Our legislation specifically does two things: It allows the research dollars in the legislation to be used by State forestry programs for carbon sequestration. This allows mobilization of various State forestry programs such as we have in Oregon and other States in this country to seriously attack this carbon problem. Second, our legislation sets up a carbon sequestration demonstration effort which allows private parties to pay farmers and foresters a market-based fee to store carbon and to otherwise reduce net emissions of greenhouse gasses.”