Political Quotes

“The Earth's climate has been changing since the beginning of time, and that is something on which I think we can all agree. MIT researchers have looked at a massive extinction some 252 million years ago as a result of a massive buildup of carbon dioxide. Funny, man wasn't around. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service estimates that the administration squandered $77 billion, with a B, between fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2013 in trying to study all this. Now, if the President, the emperor himself, would like to bypass Congress, that is fine. But Congress has a fiduciary duty and a responsibility legislatively to actually pass something that the agency should enforce. We talked about wildfires. Well, there we go again. It has been mismanagement of our forests that have created these catastrophic wildfires. Take it from somebody in Arizona who should know. So I ask all of my colleagues to vote for this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.”