Jay Inslee

Today the governor of Washington State asked President Obama to declare the landslide in Osso a major disaster, which would bring additional resources to families and businesses.

It is a great honor to represent 6½ million Washingtonians in honoring this great titan of democracy, Speaker Tom Foley.

I want to thank you for your efforts giving her a shot to enjoy a world when she is my age of 61 that looks something like the one we have got here today.

The work you are doing on solar energy is spectacular.

We have spent over $12 billion and 30 years moving forward in Yucca, and now we are at this point where we have a commission that I liken to sort of the group that is scouting the best NBA.

I really am alarmed by the failure of public process and something that I just think is a disregard of the law in this instance.

Under this bill, would the United States government be able to assess the impact of that export on consumer prices in the United States at all?

Every single one of those jobs is at risk because of this wrongheaded, archaic, backward thinking of the GOP.

This is a job-killing effort by the GOP and an effort to hang on to some old, inefficient economic activity rather than to create thousands of new jobs.

I am concerned about this GOP effort, not just for issues of public health but because I think it will adversely impact job creation in the United States.

It is a failed policy by a failed state, and I have to tell you, regardless who the Administration is, an abject failure to follow federal law here is most disturbing and it is unacceptable.

I will just ask Dr. Lyons, how are we ever to build anything like a nuclear waste repository anywhere in the United States if social acceptance is a mandatory criteria to build something?

Because of the failure to follow the clear law here, this is the equivalency of a failed state.

This is very disturbing on a couple of bases. One is, in my State, the State of Washington, we have people very diligently trying to follow their obligations legally and in their profession getting this waste ready to ship to Yucca.

The Arctic is melting two to three to four times faster than the IPCC would have predicted a few years ago.

I think there is something that is--irony, I'm not sure is the right word, maybe something closer to distress about this situation.

We have an obligation to our generations who built America. That's why we will not allow the Republicans to terminate Medicare with extreme prejudice. We will not allow them to turn a guarantee for seniors into a voucher program for the…

The only comprehensive assessment of the cost benefit analysis is the one presented by the EPA.

If you could make an investment of $1 that could result in 26,000 deaths--premature deaths in the United States, and would return economic benefits of a minimum of $5 to the Nation, let us just start with that presumption.

I think that is a huge mistake. It is like eating your seed corn.

I am serious about this.

The Republican budget has proposed a 35-percent cut from last year in efficiency and renewable energy portfolio, and about half of that degree of cut for nuclear. That just doesn't make any sense to me.

If you think I'm just blowing smoke here, go take a look at their bill. Their bill doesn't try to fix the regulation. It absolutely eliminates in total the ability of the EPA. The EPA was started under a good Republican, Richard Nixon, and…

I would just note in closing that if we are successful in asking Republicans to stand with us against the dirty air act, we will celebrate a Republican achievement of 40 years ago that we will have preserved, the Clean Air Act. And we will…

What I want to make clear to the public is that when we say gut, we mean gut the Clean Air Act because the Republican dirty air act doesn't just reduce protections by 10 percent to children with asthma. It doesn't reduce it by 50 percent…