henry is on the phone from spartanburg, south carolina. good morning. good morning, henry. caller: of this latest pick -- this latest is not indicative of one party and i think it shows why the american people are just so frustrated with politicians and our political system in general. but what makes this really, really bad is that republicans are along with the evangelical right conservative, they always preaching moral values and determining who is going to heaven or hell. so when it happens to them, then it puts it in another light. if they would just be for real and stop trying to always dictate to other how they ought to be living -- sanford was fighting for everything going to be here for south carolina. on the one hand you are not taking stimulus money and unemployment money for your people and on the other hand you are taking our state taxpayer money and running off on junkets with your mistress and everything, and it is just the hypocrisy of it and everything. so if you are going to take this moral road and claim that you are at the party of moral the use of and ev

today i had an interesting discussion in greenville and spartanburg, south carolina. they were entitled what's wrong with cap and trade, what's right with using free enterprise to solve the challenge that we have. so what's wrong with cap and trade, we came to pretty solid agreement on that, madam speaker. it's a massive tax increase in the midst of a recession. it's a wall street trading scheme that really would make any trader on wall street that led us into this recent debacle blush, and it's really a proposal that's going to end up decimating american manufacturing because the tax on energy would be applied just domestically, wouldn't be applied to imported goods. the result is we would export productive capacity from the united states to other countries that don't have price on carbon. it's a real problem. it's something we've got to stop in order to get to the better. the better that we discussed is a proposal that actually a bipartisan proposal at this point, that jeff flake and dan lipinski and i are supporting which is a plan to basically do a revenue neutral

last night in spartanburg, south carolina, we had a town meeting and folks were joining in this debate we are having here this week in washington about climate legislation. there were folks who spoke passionately about the need to take action. and i'm in agreement with them. there is a need to take action and to discharge a stewardship obligation. then there are others there who really didn't buy the science of climate change. so there's a good discussion a. good debate. there's going to be a debate here on this house floor, perhaps by the end of the week. and, madam speaker, what i'd like to say tonight is that there is a need to act, but there's a need to act in way that wins a triple play of this american century. if we play this right, it really is an opportunity to do three things simultaneously. one, improve the national security of the united states. two, create jobs. and three, clean up the air. so let's get about the triple play. it starts by stoppingp the current cap and trade proposal. the problem with cap and trade is, it's a massive tax increase in the midst of a recession

i know bmw is then greenville in spartanburg. it is there a situation, tax policy, regulatory policy and all the rest, that is ever going to allow that industry to flourish again? >> real quickly, i sure hope so. i have always thought an american car. i just wrote a column about the subject. a beautiful red camaro convertible, by midlife crisis car but i want america, i don't want those jobs to disappear and it is important i think that we have, it is not final but we be good to have an auto-- american on the manufacturing industry. we are now at the precipice of basically having three groups running the auto industry. the united states government, the united autoworkers and the sierra club and folks that is a prescription for disaster. the problem is, if washington is running the car companies, it is going to be politically driven. we want grain cars, we want the plosive car come of this car come of that car. i don't see that turning to possibility. >> as long as we are speculating i will at that i think there will be an auto in