This has been a very useful discussion. I thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member for holding it.

So a farmer in Siberia will do better as things get warmer up there. Africa, Asia, places like that, will suffer a great deal. Correct?

And we are not exactly certain how this unprecedented change to our atmosphere and oceans is going to work out entirely, are we?

Well, thank you very much. I am afraid in the same way that concern about the debt seems to vanish in front of the tax benefits for special interests, concern about properly operating markets is going to vanish in the face of the subsidies…

I do not think we do very well in government anywhere is the prototyping function.

we are here to point out that there are an awful lot of Americans who are winning because of the Affordable Care Act--whether it is a mom with kids who have gotten out of college but couldn't get health care on their own who can now stay…

I am now here for the 62nd weekly effort to have my colleagues wake up to the threats of climate change. Congress continues to remain sound asleep, I suspect anesthetized by the narcotic drip of polluter money into our veins. But the signs…

Your Tier 3 motor vehicle rule, for instance, will prevent as many as 2,000 premature deaths and 30,000 respiratory illnesses in children every year.

You exercise one of the most important responsibilities of the Federal Government, to protect human health and the environment.

It is unfortunate that, because of cuts, funding for Clean Water and Drinking Water State revolving funds had to be reduced by 30 percent and 17 percent, respectively.

The coal ash standard that the Obama administration committed to in 2008 was the result of a dam collapse in Tennessee.

I am sorry that that combination of features no longer seems possible in Washington.

Let me say for the record that I know EPA employees and I have known EPA employees over the years, and the effort to tar all EPA employees with the misconduct of one criminal I think is reprehensible.

before I yield the floor to Senator Udall of New Mexico, this may be my last chance to speak before the all-night session comes to its end, because I am about to relieve the Presiding Officer. In fact, I am overdue for that. But I did want…

May I inquire through the Presiding Officer if the Senator from Connecticut would be willing to engage in a brief colloquy. If the answer to that is yes, I would propound the following question: I know the senior Senator from Connecticut…

If you have two factories working side-by-side and one factory is paying attention to making its products and doing the best it can and being as efficient as it can and making a great product and going out and selling it, and then the…

The energy is definitely out there. There is no doubt about it. Poll after poll shows how strongly Americans feel about climate change. My favorite one, because it involves Republicans, is a poll taken of self-identified Republican voters…

And the particularly vicious looking duck. The solution on climate is not the equivalent of piranhas, alligators, snakes, and a vicious duck. The solution on climate is actually a triple win. The Senator mentioned the earlier limits on…

The bipartisan work I think is mostly being done at the local level--at the level of Governors and mayors, at the level of local city councils. One example which comes to mind is the City of Miami. Miami is really ground zero for climate…

The Senator knows better than I what is happening in New Jersey. You know how hard New York and New Jersey in particular were hit by Sandy. You have our sympathies, because we had some Sandy damage in Rhode Island but we just caught a…

We are seeing the same thing in Rhode Island. Indeed, Newport, RI, is known for being a summer destination. The first summer visitors to Newport, RI, the first people who made it the summer capital of the United States were traders from…

The one we hear the most often right now is: Don't worry, climate change has leveled off. Global warming and the temperature increases have leveled off. Well, as you just saw, 93 percent of the heat goes into the ocean. So if you are…

May the record reflect that this is perhaps the first reference in the history of the Senate to dinosaur flatulence.

If I may, let me ask people who are listening to think back in time. Think back in time to many years ago when Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States, when this room was just under construction and soldiers coming down occupied…

To follow up on Senator Schatz's point in terms of the bipartisanship we can hope for here sooner or later, on the skiing question and snowboarding question that was raised, the Park City Foundation in Utah, which runs all of the Park City…