"The President sent a letter to Senator Baucus and Senator Kennedy saying that, on June 2, saying that healthcare reform must not add to our deficit over the next 10 years."
"the very idea of coming and putting in 50-story towers with long transmission lines seems to me to be a preposterous notion."
"I completely agree with the chairman about fire. It is an essential part of the Forest Service program."
"I would like very much for us to have in this country as much renewable energy as we reasonably and appropriately can."
"My concern more is with the landscape."
"I think it is a preposterous idea to take land we have set aside for recreation and scenic and other uses and clutter it with eyesores that don't produce much electricity."
"This year we ask that you once again provide funding to programs we believe are crucial for maintaining healthy and abundant bird populations throughout the United States."
"There's one area I hope you don't act on, and that's on carbon, I think that's more appropriately left to the Congress."
"I'm not interested in imposing on the State of Tennessee a standard it by itself can't meet."
"Is there any way to relate the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act in some way, so that we create goals for States or areas or regions, to try to make sure that as we clean up the air, we clean up t..."
"I hope there's one area, Administrator Jackson, that you do act on promptly, and that's the clean air interstate rule for the Eastern United States."