We remain completely committed to the idea that we have a responsibility to make the environment of our state and world better. We’re not going to do it by participating in gimmicky programs that don’t work.
[RGGI is] nothing more than a tax on electricity, a tax on our residents and on businesses with no discernible effect on our environment.
RGGI drives up energy costs for consumers at a time when nobody can afford any additional taxes.
This program is not effective in reducing greenhouse gases and is unlikely to be in the future. The whole system is not working as it was intended to work. It’s a failure.
This financial takeover will strangle our economy and move jobs overseas unless it is repealed.
I think you cannot write a law for every extreme situation. We just have to write the best law we can that has common sense in it.
My aim is to put back some common sense. We're not doing students any favor by telling them, 'You cannot work.'
The hour restrictions are so tight. There are many jobs where you can work after 9 p.m.
As reprehensible as child labor is, and as much as it ought to be abandoned — that's something that has to be done by state legislators, not by Members of Congress. This may sound harsh, but it was designed to be that way. It was designed to be a little bit harsh. Not because we like harshness for the sake of harshness, but because we like a clean division of power, so that everybody understands whose job it is to regulate what.
[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can’t pay for it.
