03/08/2010
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"My general attitude toward environmental rules is we ought to come up with a good performance standard, and then we ought to give the people who are affected by it plenty of time to get there."
"Senator Carper and I have been trying to pass a law that regulates mercury from coal-fired power plants in a reasonable way since 2003."
"Why wouldn't that be a better, more certain way to deal with this issue and maybe other issues?"
"If Congress in its wisdom had passed Senator Carper's and my bill in 2003 when we first introduced it, this would all have been done 4 or 5 years ago."