Thomas McClintock actually said...

"How do we lessen our dependence on foreign oil by prohibiting the development of our domestic supplies?"

"I would like to just test out a theory that I have evolved over the last few years since I arrived here at the Congress."

"Why not just say no more borrowing, except by extraordinary majority vote of the Congress, say three-fourths of the Congress, for a single object or work?"

"All of this discussion about changing the process is simply averting the responsibility that we all have to follow that process."