Jay Inslee

Mr. Holt made a really important point that we need to discuss. He made a strong statement that this dirty air act that the Republicans have introduced would gut the Clean Air Act. That is a strong statement, and it is entirely accurate.

I think it's simply fair to call it the ``dirty air act'' because that's what you get if this legislation passes. You get dirty air. If you pass a dirty air act, you get dirty air. I think it's a fair assessment of what it does.

Our cab driver the other day said he served in the last segregated African American unit during the Korean War. He told me there were five guys in his unit who were gay, and he thought those guys were the best because all five of those gay…

I just want to thank Senators Klobuchar and Cornyn for their work on this and say this is a good bipartisan effort. We are not done on this, as Mr. Buyer pointed out, but this is a good start. I urge passage.

To close, I would just like to comment. We're going to have lots of debates about the right policy to deal with this problem, but the country that put a man on the Moon should not be the country to blind itself to an obvious problem. And…

I just want to make the point and make sure Members know we are not advocating any particular policy. What we are advocating here is that we, on a bipartisan basis, take the blinders off to a problem that we have to face on a bipartisan…

I want to make clear that there really is no scientific debate or uncertainty about a couple of physical facts... There is really no debate in the scientific community about this.

Well, the national policies will be decided by this Congress rather than just myself or the gentleman. This will be a decision, the policies that we will make, hopefully, on a bipartisan basis. The resolution does not pertain to any…

A cap could be one of those, but there are many other policies that could be beneficial, many of which have already passed the House of Representatives, including our efforts to start building electric cars in America rather than China…

Well, there are numerous policies that could deal with this problem, and our resolution does not specify any particular policy. We look to the bipartisan efforts that we hope will succeed here in an effort that will reduce what causes…

I just want my colleagues to realize there is a clear difference between these two bidders. One has been adjudicated as having received over $5 billion of illegal subsidies. That is the same contractor that will take tens of thousands of…

Yes. And it is our intent, with this amendment, to ensure that illegal and unfair competitive advantages, such as the launch aid provided to EADS/Airbus by the European governments, are factored into the bid price of recipients of those…

But if Congress does not design it, the EPA is going to do that. And we are not going to vote for bills that do not solve this problem that would strip the EPA of their authority to solve this problem. So we need the Senate to step up to…

In fact, my colleague, who is today on a bill about estuaries trying to fan April 15 into a jihad against supporting Uncle Sam, every single one of the quartiles that you represent has had their taxes cut under this President and you voted…

Thank you, and particularly thanks to Dale Penny and Sally Prouty for your help with developing a clean energy corps.

I so appreciate, Chairman Grijalva, you and Chairman Rahall for introducing this bill and making public lands a part of the service corps acts.

This bill, I think, represents a trifecta of opportunity to solve this.

We have a dearth of diversity on our public lands, our public lands are not represented by the people who represent this country.

Thank you. The gentleman from Alaska made some comments about a little company in my district, Boeing, and the Boeing 787.

Some people do care about it. We just invested $70 billion in the stimulus package.

Less than 2 percent on natural resource. What does that tell you?

The status quo has got to change.

Unless we get a handle on carbon dioxide emissions, we are all in this soup together.

I met, this morning, with Henry Cagey of the Lummi Tribe, who was telling me about this disaster with the loss of the runs, the Fraser River salmon runs, that has been declared a disaster by the Secretary of Commerce.

I have been noticing an ad that your company has been running on television for the last year quite heavily.