"The statistic in my own opening statement, that still sort of stunned me when I kept on reading it over and over again--the fact that a person with H1N1 going to work, according to the CDC, could contaminate or affect 10 percent of that person's workforce, is rather breathtaking."
"We need to get smartened up and realize it's here, and begin to deal with it in a comprehensive fashion."
"The cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide emissions would reduce the number of jobs in industries that produce carbon-based energy."
"I appreciate your courtesy in doing that."
"The increases in the price of energy caused by the program would reduce workers' real wages."
"If the United States implements cap and trade unilaterally...we would, indeed, make ourselves considerably less competitive."
"We are certainly concerned about it, which is why...we do have some concern."
"What bothers me a lot is that, when I was chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, now called the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, I used to go over to Geneva to the ILO, t..."
"Having an adequate domestic capacity for developing pandemic vaccines is a matter of national security."
"We exempt, of course, a lot of small businesses, because obviously--and I agree with Senator Enzi in that point."
"Well, I am very interested in how a cap-and-trade program would affect the poor."