To me, that's a bureaucratic failure.

There is another bipartisan opportunity to improve care. In this case, it probably would lower expense, but that would not be the point, and that area is end of life care, advanced care.

A nominee who can't follow the thread from carbon pollution to ocean warming to sea level rise, who imagines science that is not there and ignores science that is there is a preposterous nominee.

I think what we will find is that it actually helps the public fisc as well.

because one thing more dangerous than climate change is lying.

But I hope, very much, that in office you will take the side of the American people and not just the pharmaceutical industry.

in this season of Thanksgiving, let me say that I am thankful, as I rise for my 187th ``Time to Wake Up'' address, for the spirit of commitment and innovation that this great Nation devotes to tackling the challenge of climate change, even…

Approving this nominee for CEQ would be so preposterous that it would be like appointing Caligula's horse in that the real question becomes about the power of our fossil fuel emperors and the spine of the Senate.

Promise me that you will work with us on that. Promise me that you will not get ideological when it comes to solving this problem and that you will work to solve it in a sensible, bipartisan, thoughtful way.

I very much hoped you would say that and use the TVA that way, and I think your ability to model for the rest of the country.

There has been really good bipartisan work done here.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 3, as follows…

I was very pleased to be here for the remarks of my colleagues and friends, and I would just respond by saying that we are all for growth. We are all for growth of the American economy. I think, on this side, we are just a little bit less…

I think that there is significant technological opportunity to be achieved in that space, but it is rather hard to achieve technological opportunity in a space in which there is no value proposition to the investor.

As long as there is no price on carbon, the corollary of that is that there is no benefit to low carbon.

They have really dialed in on the health concerns about tobacco.

I am here to respond to the nomination of Steven Bradbury for a senior legal position in the U.S. Department of Transportation. I have had some experience with Mr. Bradbury, and in my experience, he is disqualified from serving in a legal…

CVS is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and we're very proud of that company, and we're particularly proud of that company's decision to take cigarettes out of its stores.

Get used to it because, in my view, this EPA is going to regularly work with industry to create artificial delay.

If this is designed to create a back door for street registered vehicles to violate the Clean Air Act, then we are going to have a problem.

Industry has asked for a free pass in this Administration, and the majority seems happy to oblige.

Over and over again, instead of this Committee looking at both sides of the ledger, we hear only about one side of the ledger.

Ozone causes bad air days in a State like mine located downwind from industry facilities to our west.

Their claim is that each bill is a simple fix for a narrowly tailored regulation, but the devil is always in the details.

The industry could truly litigate this into the indefinite future, for time immemorial.