"The Chair is delighted that at this hearing of the Water and Power Committee the Ranking Member has had an epiphany on free markets."
"Perhaps we can reach bipartisan agreement on that, Mr. Markey."
"Consumers deserve to know the actual cost of what they are paying for, and this measure does so."
"This Administration's underlying agenda is to promote a so-called 'green transmission system'."
"I think the public would be absolutely appalled to see such numbers."
"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."
"Proportionally, the drilling footprint on ANWR would be as a postage stamp is to an entire football field."
"Record unemployment, record increases in energy prices. Why don't you develop the vast reserves we have?"
"We have been embarking upon a policy of prohibiting development of our energy reserves to the point where they have become scarce."
"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."