If I went in to borrow money to buy a house and I told the banker, look, in 10 years, my interest payment is going to be 15 percent of my income, but I am going to put that on another account, I don't think he would make the loan.

I had suggested that we just declare a stock dividend and give the stock back to everybody who paid taxes last April 15th.

There is the stimulus bill, the auto bailout, the appropriations bills, the spending for health care, and the spending for the jobs bill.

We may do better step by step to go in the right direction.

But the question is what you do with your inheritance.

Isn't this an example of just saying I see the problem, the boat has a hole in it, and so what I propose to do is just put some more holes in the boat?

The Federal stimulus has provided significant budget relief to States, but the relief is temporary.

President Obama's budget director, before he was budget director, warned that the lack of State support for public higher education is damaging it.

I think that is an unwarranted policy of the EEOC, and the new Americans have to learn it.

Well, wouldn't you think there would be more urgent cases for the EEOC to pursue than to sue an employer for requiring an employee to speak English?

a U.S. Senator from the State of Tennessee

I think, in my view, the EEOC is way off base on a legal matter.

We can do all those things without a national energy tax that is ineffective in any event on fuel, that raises costs, and that runs off manufacturing jobs.

It will undermine the global competitiveness of America's manufacturers, it will weaken America's national security, and it's an energy tax that will be paid for by the Heartland.

Forty Republican Senators, and we believe many Democrats, believe there is another approach to reaching our climate change goals by 2030.

Yet, when this legislation is combined, Senator Carper described this as a technology-neutral cap, but when it is combined with the renewable electricity standards... we suddenly see that we are not technology-neutral anymore.

I want to look toward the future and think about your testimony and that of many others.

I have a problem with the solution. I think the economy-wide cap and trade is taxes, mandates, surprises and unnecessary.

If I were picking, I would pick nuclear and leave wind alone.

We have talked about it, as a matter of fact, before.

The President said at a town hall meeting in New Orleans we would be stupid, in his words, not to use nuclear power.

The Obama administration says we want to make 20 percent of our energy from wind.

If we did that, we wouldn't need a national energy tax. We wouldn't need to raise the price of gasoline.

Why would we encourage, why would we have a subsidy, why should 75 percent of the renewable energy subsidies go to wind power?

I think nuclear is going to be part of the mix.