Juan Vargas actually said...

"what has happened here recently, I think, is a disaster--a terrible disaster"

"I am very nervous about the Kurds now in Syria--in particular, ethnic cleansing."

"This is the first time--and I have sat in hundreds of hearings--that climate change has been brought up and there hasn't been ridicule about it."

"I think this might be a banner day. I think this is the first time that I have ever sat in a committee, with both Republicans and Democrats, where no one has disagreed that climate change exists."