Political Quotes

“Thank you. I was just thinking about the legislation that passed before I arrived here, the effort, it was called climate change legislation, but it was far more than that. It really dealt with national security. And that legislation is now over in the Senate and perhaps will become--will pass the Senate or we will have a conference committee to put it together. But from that climate change legislation, it's really national security. And the discussion we were just having here on the national security side and about climate and about jobs, all of those things come together. If we are able to reduce our reliance on foreign oil, if we are able to transition to low-carbon fuel sources, whether they are solar or wind or wave or whatever, we will also enhance our national security. I would like to take just a few seconds, actually a few minutes, talking about some of the other things that were in the American Recovery Act of last year. There was a $400 per person tax credit for men and women that were working so that they would have more purchasing power. That's $800 for a family of two. There was the tax credit for colleges. And in the legislation that we just passed 2 days ago, along with the health care reform, there was an enormous expansion of the Pell Grants so that kids can go to college, so that they could get the education that they needed; for community colleges, an expansion for community college Pell Grants.…”