Arlen Specter

In my State that may pit natural gas versus coal.

I think this bill gives the lifeline to coal to become an energy source in the future.

I think for conventional pollutants, there are regulatory structures that will continue to be important to protecting.

I think there will be a lot more support if EPA does not retain the regulatory authority to deal with this issue.

I want to know what the cost is going to be on the electricity.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

It would be my hope that our committee would hold its fire until we have heard all of the witnesses and examined the key issues as to how we deal with global warming, climate change; how we protect the jobs that are at stake; how we deal…

I think it is important that the final bill will include a provision for mandatory jail sentences.

I was particularly interested in the part of your testimony where you specified that the studies which you have conducted on renewable electricity standards show that there is the potential for creating some 850,000 manufacturing jobs.

The important factor, Mayor Nutter, is that the jobs you are giving them will have application in the private sector as well.

The best anti-crime program is a job.

My constituents and I very much appreciate that assurance.

A hearing has great utility in allowing people to express themselves and to have some consideration.

I have introduced in the last two Congresses legislation, now in Senate Bill 32, which calls for hearings by FERC.

Well, I am glad to hear you like cap-and-trade and like the legislation. But in order to get the legislation, there may have to be a little give.

You can't emit carbon dioxide unless you pay for it.

The issue that Senator Voinovich has raised is a big one.

I think it is not too much to say that what we are doing today may really turn out to be historic, as we grapple with very critical objectives.

I've pressed for a long time to require the Supreme Court to be televised, and I'm about to modify that approach with a sense of the Senate resolution to urge the Supreme Court to accept television, to have some transparency and…

Senator Leahy and I have discussed the subject for decades, eons, and twice the Committee has voted out legislation.

I join my distinguished college, Senator Casey, in presenting to this Judiciary Committee the nomination of Judge Thomas Vanaskie to be a Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

The Supreme Court basically legislating.

Early on, I came to the conclusion that there was a very effective way to deal with violent crime in America.

I think this is a very important position, because too little of scientific research has been devoted to trying to deal with the criminal law problem.

We have not really made the analysis of what it takes on parole and probation to turn that around.