Henry Waxman

I think we are going to have success around the country unless Republicans intimidate people.

I don't even know what this hearing is all about. We have had so many hearings by the Republicans to beat up on the Affordable Care Act.

The worst abuses of the insurance companies have been ended. This Republican approach, I believe, is bad for the country.

It appears to be part of the efforts by the Republican party to engage in partisan attacks on this law and if they could do it, even sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

Oversight is important and valuable, but the Affordable Care Act oversight of the last 3 years has not been to enlighten the committee or improve the law.

At the end of the day we know pipelines will leak and oil will spill.

The President has wisely said that he will not approve the pipeline if it leads significantly to worse climate change, and that is clearly the case.

The United States doesn't need this dirty energy because the fact is we are developing domestic oil, natural gas resources at a record pace.

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.

If our goal is creating jobs, Keystone XL is not the answer.

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

What is your plan? Don't just say no; propose an alternative.

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

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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

I don't see the benefits to U.S. energy consumer even though that is an argument that is put forward quite a bit.

If we act now, if we invest in solar, wind, and other clean energy sources, if we unleash American ingenuity, we can stop carbon pollution and protect our atmosphere and create millions of new clean energy jobs.

If we take that path, history will not treat us kindly. We will be the generation that ignored the warnings of scientists and left future generations a violent and inhospitable climate.

We are at a critical crossroads in this country in our energy policy, and if we decide to do nothing, which I sense is what the Republicans want is to do nothing, it is going to lead to more carbon pollution, more droughts and floods, and…

Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask unanimous consent that we put in the record a study by Dr. Benjamin Santer, atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he says neither volcanoes nor the sun nor internal…

The statement stands that anthropogenic CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions are a driver at the level of multiple degrees centigrade in this century.

There is no reason you should be mindful of proposals that even passed the House if they are not law.

It is unprecedented to have to Cabinet-level officials who have the primary burden of dealing with the climate change issue come before a subcommittee.

The Obama administration has spent about $60 billion on climate change.

It is easy to criticize other people's solutions. But if all you do is criticize, you are either a climate denier because you don't think anything needs to be done, the science doesn't warrant it, it is not happening, or they are ignoring…