Thomas McClintock actually said...

"My advice would be not to wait for Federal legislation, just give it your best shot, so that people at least have a ballpark estimate of what they are paying through their power bills for all of these..."

"taxpayers are being asked to risk $3.25 billion on the same technology and by the same Administration that has just delivered the Solyndra scandal."

"Is this a cheap form of electricity? Is this a good investment for our taxpayers?"

"Actually, I think people would be appalled at the per-fish cost of many of these mandates, which, in many cases that I have seen, runs into the tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars per fish."