Political Quotes

“While the Senator from Oregon is here, I just want to say he mentioned we have a very fine planet, and God knows we do, but it is also the only planet we have, and I think for certainly everybody who serves in this body--and maybe some of these young pages will have the opportunity someday to live on another planet but probably not. The President of France was just down the hall 2 years ago. I am sure Senator Merkley remembers it. President Macron addressed us on a variety of subjects, but one of those was the future of our plant. He said these words. I will never forget them. He said: We only get one planet, planet Earth. There is no planet B. This is it. He reminded us of our obligation, really a moral obligation, to take care of this gift from God that he has entrusted into our care. It is in that spirit that I am pleased to rise today with Senator Merkley and other colleagues to speak out against the so-called Affordable Clean Energy rule that repeals and replaces the Clean Power Plan from the previous administration. As I said when this rule was proposed in, I think, August of last year--and our colleague, given where he is from in America, maybe they say this in his State too--but we have a saying here that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. I said at the time when this rule was introduced that the only thing that has changed from the proposal to the final rule is maybe a little more lipstick.…”