Henry Waxman actually said...

"This Republican bill, it seems to me, is a terrible idea. It is just the latest Republican assault on clean energy."

"This throws innovation out the window, and it replaces it with a static list of winners who happen to submit applications by the end of 2011."

"No, that is the reasons people have said, if you accept that there is a need to support innovation, it doesn't make much sense in my view to cut it off now when you might have a new innovative project..."

"It is a tool that is used in extremis."