I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To encourage the purchase of pulse crop products for school…

As the top two energy consumers and greenhouse gas emitters in the world, I believe the United States and China have a tremendous opportunity to work together to solve their shared energy and environmental challenges.

I want to make sure I understand it. But it seems that one of the reasons is that it appears like Chilean national airline carrier, LAN, flies four times a week from Santiago to Madrid on an Airbus 340.

The United States as the world's sole superpower must act and lead the world to a cleaner energy future.

I have a great deal of concern about the approach that Europe has taken on a cap-and-trade system.

I can guarantee you my constituents don't care which side of Congress. It's like kids in the room; they just want us to stop and work together.

I hope that we can go back to ICAO and resolve these issues and come up with a plan that really does emphasize the technology that enables us to make the emission reductions.

The real issue is the reduction in emissions and the measurement of the reduction in those emissions.

I believe and trust the virtually unanimous agreement in the scientific community that there is a cause for global warming and it is human-related.

I think that's what people want to see. They want to see a plan that works.

We cannot continue to ignore this threat to our environment and to America's prosperity.

No airline is required to send a nickel to a foreign government treasury under this law if it doesn't want to.

I hope that we'll continue to move forward on freight mobility issues and streamlining and improving our transportation system.

I think the Department of Defense is very smart to look at biofuels.

The EU law is no more an intrusion into U.S. sovereignty than America's own aviation laws intrude into the sovereignty of other nations.

I guarantee you we will get to the bottom of it because we definitely believe that academics in the Northwest and perhaps throughout the country can help with better modeling.

I think the jury is still out. We have been doing a tremendous amount of work trying to locate any of the debris that would be in the ocean in where we have projected.

We need something much more elaborate to understand and stop this debris before it actually reaches our shores.

We must work together to find solutions to this growing problem.

The notion that states are going to be left to respond is just not what we are going to do to protect our coastal communities.

This is the chart that we had gotten from the University of Hawaii and it shows the migration of millions of tons of tsunami trash basically making a good trajectory right toward the West Coast.

I would say Washington and Alaska, Oregon, and California, Hawaii are all very united in our concern over the economic impacts that tsunami debris can have to our region.

So anything that threatens that coastal economy is something we are going to pay a lot of attention to.

Well, I think just with what happened with Deepwater Horizon, people wanted answers about what the impacts were going to be on those fisheries there.

So, Mr. Chairman, I feel like you do, that we are not getting the answers that we need.