every other climate change solution in this building has had an allocation system because we don't see compliance.

A hundred percent auction of the credits will, I think, make it very difficult for a heavy-energy-user manufacturers.

The political system is better than the alternative, but as I sit here and listen about the different options and combinations, I am thinking as a politician, now what I sell people back home?

This is an amazing country where people like me will decide these things.

The Government is involved. How much money would the Government save in the second option versus the first option in your opinion?

we need to make sort of a systematic approach to this.

$350 billion was not well spent, the next $350 billion can be better spent, but it is not nearly enough.

I think the most important thing you can do is to reward it when it is done.

$100 billion of the $350 billion, this panel agrees should go into the people that are in foreclosure.

Everything we are doing, no one likes to do and it is unprecedented.

It is never going to happen unless it is bipartisan.

the Senate is taking up a matter that I think is very important to the American people and our national security, and that is to pass the compromise reached by the House and the administration regarding the FISA program. I want to briefly…

over the past 5 years there has been a sea-change in the way we talk about climate change. I was hoping that this debate would serve as an opportunity to constructively discuss the issue. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer amendments or…

Senator Obama keeps talking about an immediate withdrawal as soon as he gets to be president. The last time, I understand, he was in Iraq was in 2006. I would recommend that he go back.

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To President Bush: Do not sign this bill. It will hurt retention. We can all come together to help those who serve and leave the military and give them a benefit better than they have today because they deserve it, but we should be working…

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