"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."
"the notion of having cap and trade and then making investments if you will is really code for that Rube Goldberg type of situation"
"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."
"Wouldn't we be much better off just with a carbon tax and just be clean with the American people."
"Wouldn't it make sense if we just put a price on carbon, period. Did away with all other subsidies, all subsidies in energy?"
"The incentive would be there because if you use carbon it would cost you."
"Which is code for money coming out of the American public's pockets and being appropriated in areas."
"I want to join Senator Bayh and others in thanking you for your leadership."
"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."
"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."
"People across the state of Tennessee realize that this is a choice. This is a choice between two individuals that cannot have had different life experiences, nor in reality a different view of what ma..."