Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, what makes no sense is the speech that we just heard regarding this amendment. There is so much of that that I cannot even fathom to put together. I am hearing a lot about hazards from gas stoves that would cause harm for our children. I have four children. We have always had a gas stove, and they are doing pretty well. I can see that the gentlewoman from Illinois has made it pretty long in her lifetime with the so-called dangers of gas products here in America. Mr. Chairman, let me tell you what really is hazardous. What really is dangerous is the Green New Deal extremism that comes from the left because they want to suppress our good, clean energy right here in the United States of America that is cheap, that is reliable, and it is actually something that is affordable for Americans right now, unlike everything else because of the inflation that we are seeing from this administration. What is hazardous and what is really dangerous are the tens of thousands of children who are mining for cobalt in Chinese-owned mines in the Congo with their bare hands. That is what is dangerous, and that is what this Green New Deal extremist policy encourages and pushes. I have voted on so many bills for the Uighurs that are suppressed by the Chinese, but we never talk about the slave labor that takes place to produce the energy that the other side is trying to force on Americans with their overreach of government policy. That is what is dangerous.…”