Alan Lowenthal actually said...

"I would like to urge all my colleagues here today to become co-sponsors of this important legislation, and help us to prevent the next abandoned mine contamination release before it happens."

"I think if we ended up in a war with Iran, we would win handily, obviously."

"The SCC, or the social cost of carbon, is derived by estimating the cost of the damage to society of emitting a single metric ton of carbon dioxide."

"For years, the world's top economists have been saying that in not accounting for climate change, we have created a market failure."