Wouldn't we be much better off just with a carbon tax and just be clean with the American people.

the notion of having cap and trade and then making investments if you will is really code for that Rube Goldberg type of situation

Of course if you do that, in essence we're raising taxes on Americans directly. We certainly should state that.

Wouldn't it make sense if we just put a price on carbon, period. Did away with all other subsidies, all subsidies in energy?

Which is code for money coming out of the American public's pockets and being appropriated in areas.

Let's just, since the time is limited. Why not just have a carbon tax and just be clean with the American people as to what we're doing.

the simple way of doing it would be to make sure that we either through cap and trade with 100 percent auctions, no offsets, return 100 percent of that money to the American public.

I'm actually open to it as long as every penny generated from that is returned to the citizens, a cap and dividend kind of program.

But, because this resolution is nonbinding and going to have no effect, in my opinion, no effect on the course of action, I'm not going to support it.

Mr. Chairman, I have had the opportunity to spend some personal time with the Admiral, and certainly believe that he and the General are outstanding nominees.

I think that we need to do the things that have made us greet, and that is have fiscal constraints, which we have been lacking in Washington.