Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, how in the world did we get to this point? How did we get to the point of the majority party bringing forth this highly partisan, backwards-looking, does-more-harm-than-good so-called energy bill after all the time and all the effort that was put forth by both sides to come up with a bipartisan compromise? Mr. Chairman, after working together for the majority of this year, literally moments before the full Energy and Commerce Committee was set to mark up this bill, the rug was pulled out from under the minority side, and the Republicans turned their collective back on the legislative compromise. We were informed that the majority had reneged on its prior commitments, and what was initially supposed to be an infrastructure bill would contain no actual funding for any infrastructure projects-- not one red cent. In addition to reneging on a promise to fund a grid modernization program and a pipeline replacement program that would have benefited low-income consumers, the majority has also stripped the one provision of the bill that received widespread praise and support from both sides of the aisle. The 21st Century Workforce title that my office had authored has been stripped from this awful excuse for a comprehensive energy bill. It would seem, Mr.…”