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With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

I need to work to support my family.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.