Henry Waxman actually said...

"If we are going to ask the United States to bear all of the environmental risk of transporting this dirty oil, we should at least ensure that the American people see some benefit."

"This single tar sands pipeline would increase America's carbon pollution equivalent to building seven new coal-fired power plants."

"I oppose this tar sands pipeline because this locks us into decades of higher carbon pollution."

"There are plenty of other infrastructure investments that we can make that would generate good jobs across the country, hundreds of thousands of jobs."