"We need to look into this. And we need to look into this before any further activity is taken on the Klamath."
"I would suggest the gentleman from Massachusetts read his briefings more carefully before he comes to the hearing."
"This omission is glaring enough, to call for a separate hearing on this subject."
"Congress and Congress alone has the constitutional authority to legislate."
"Louis Brandeis once said sunlight is the best of disinfectants. And it seems to me that this Administration, which has become the most secretive in our history, is in desperate need of such disinfecti..."
"But you are not executing. You are legislating. You are developing and imposing rules, and you are enforcing those rules."
"It is absolutely no coincidence that, as the cheapest forms of electricity like coal are being replaced under these lunatic policies with the most expensive forms of electricity, that Americans' elect..."
"Coal is one of the cheapest forms of electricity that we have available to us, and one of the most abundant resources of our Nation."
"When executive agencies like yours write laws, execute those laws, and adjudicate those laws, they are short-circuiting all of these checks and balances that protect the freedom of our Nation."
"a Representative in Congress from the State of California"
"Maybe Mr. Payne, can you offer any enlightenment on this subject?"