The Kyoto protocol doesn't amount to much in terms of emissions reductions but at least it breaks the curve (of rising emissions) among countries that have accepted its targets.

If you only focus on debates about binding emissions caps, more specifically the Kyoto Protocol, then yes, we have a different view than the participants that have signed onto Kyoto. However, when you consider the real actions that will be needed to address the issue, there is no doubt that we are leading the world in a global and long-term effort.

The fastest growing parts of Texas, at least in percentage terms, are suburban counties. Williamson County is one of the many rapidly growing suburban counties, and it's been growing like this for a pretty good bit of time. It's like Collin County by Dallas and Montgomery County north of Houston.

I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.

One is the steepness of the bug finding curve and the other one is really the amount of hard-to-detect bugs that really escape to the labs. We are not living under the illusion with our chips that we will find the last bug in the end, so we have to have a strategy to deal with escapes.

The purpose of this program is to reduce the amount of emissions being released every day in California and to clean up some of the smog from the California skies ? that's the bottom line.