"I do want to start with you, Dr. Holdren, though."
"I look forward to working with you to guide an agenda that focuses on clean energy and climate technology."
"What I am saying to you is that we have a President now who seems to be enormously interested in technology and efficiency."
"I look forward to working together to ensure that the National Climate Service serves an important function in providing key climate information."
"As a new member of the committee and of the Senate, and if you have two minutes to kill, can you give us a little quickie overview of--I think I understand the jurisdiction of the Committee, but if yo..."
"Mr. Chairman, I am happy to be on the Committee. I do not know if this shows that I drew the long straw or the short straw, but I am happy to be here."
"I want to add my voice as well and say thank you for calling this hearing and echoing both what you and Senator Bennett have said."
"the sooner we bite this bullet, the better in terms of trying to get some of these--particularly clean up the balance sheets and get these bad assets off."
"A pricing mechanism, basically."
"It is not a prerequisite to finish the stress test before you----"
"I want to come back to this valuation issue, but I have got a couple of other questions first."