You have besmirched its reputation and you have soured its relationship with Congress.

Will States like Colorado be fully reimbursed for their expenses that they are incurring right now?

Government will not, cannot, and should not solve all of your problems.

There is definitely a need for this Committee, and we will be heavily in jurisdiction with the fine folks from both sides of the aisle here looking at this.

Seeing this panel, it reminds me of one of my favorite movies of all time, 'Groundhog Day,' because we see you here again as we go through this.

Think now about what you need from Congress. Think now about what you want to bring before us to change.

if we break it, we own it.

I walked into this hearing concerned and very deeply concerned about the actions we are taking; I am still there.

But if we shoot missiles in there, we are involving ourselves in degrading stock.

There are multiple contributions to what people consider climate change, and it is not all just man made anthropogenic sources.

Human activity releases a lot of energy into the environment that contributes to the warming, but I also view that CO2 is an untapped resource and we need to start thinking about how we utilize that.