"If you can't breathe, you can't work or go to school."
"All people deserve protection, from the very tiniest infant to the most elderly among us."
"I want to point out that Senator Bennet did praise you for being available, so there is confusion."
"I want to thank you for that, because clearly, we do not want to play Russian roulette with these mines."
"I just want to say, the Obama administration has proposed reinstating the Superfund tax and establishing a fee on hard rock mining."
"Let's really step up to the plate. Let's not just point fingers. Let's get something done and stop these disasters from happening in the future."
"I just have to say in due respect as the Ranking Member here, all I wanted to do is make a point of clarification because you said that we did something without a hearing."
"California's rate of job growth is better than the country during cap-and-trade."
"97 percent of them say, climate change is real and human activity is the primary cause."
"It is not right to do that without a hearing. It is not right, so I cannot give you a quorum because it is just unfair."
"I just want to say putting people in danger is the wrong thing to do."