Don Beyer actually said...

I would try to be the strongest, clearest voice I could be, in my humble way, on climate change.

U.S. global leadership on climate change and responding to the threat it poses to our national security.

It then applies a 'polluter pays' principle by requiring polluters to pay to emit carbon within those caps.

It is an economic dividend approach, where all of the money is given back to the American people.