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..."

"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."

"It is amazing, when you pull out a pocket calculator, the lunacy of some of the requirements and the costs that they impose, real costs on real people paying real electricity bills every month."

"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."