"If nuclear energy produces 70 percent of our carbon-free electricity, and our goal is to reduce carbon, why is it not at the top of your list?"
"The Government has enacted a Production Tax Credit so narrowly defined it is mainly a windmill tax credit."
"It is zero-carbon."
"The fact of the matter is, taxpayers have never paid a penny as a result of that."
"When I think of jobs, I think of my State. So here is what is going on in my State: people are looking for cheap energy."
"This was Washington, once again setting the rules and, as Senator Lamar Alexander loves to say, sending the bill to the States."
"You disagree with that?"
"On the issue of climate, picking up where we left off this morning in our discussion on climate change and energy, you know, we have a spectrum of opinions in the U.S. Senate."
"That is a pretty big gasoline tax increase."
"I would appreciate that."
"The problem with coal is that we haven't built a new nuclear plant in 30 years."