Mike Simpson actually said...

"I want to commend you because every Chairman likes to be commended by his Ranking Member."

"But when is say blow it up, you missed the key point there. I said theoretically blow it up."

"I have always said, and I am a big supporter of education and math and science and all that, I know it is important, but when we do that at the expense of the arts then I think we lose something."

"Science must be the compass guiding our environmental protection decisions; we cannot make the best decisions unless we have confidence in the integrity of the science on which we rely."