"The Affordable Care Act is giving vital benefits for millions of Americans."
"There is no Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act benefits. They offer only repeal."
"Thirty million Americans would be covered under the Affordable Care Act who are not now covered, and I assume that they will go without coverage if the act is repealed?"
"The environmental harms from tar sands production have been minimized and will be solved by technology. In reality, the tar sands operations have vast and devastating effects on the land, water, air, ..."
"More drilling, building a new tar sands pipeline or developing oil shale has not reduced gasoline prices in Canada and it won't in the United States either."
"The Republicans and the oil industry will use this opportunity to call for building the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline."
"Since last May, this committee has held four hearings on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and passed two separate bills to mandate approval of that pipeline, and yet the majority has never bothered ..."
"The industry and Alberta government talk a good game but this is a classic example of greenwashing."
"The reality is that the carbon pollution from tar sands is growing very rapidly and the Alberta government is not willing to put the policies in place that would be necessary to change that."
"Well, the Republicans have said over and over again we just need more oil. If we had more oil, we wouldn't have this problem."
"If we produced more oil and OPEC decides to produce less, that won't help us; that will hurt us."