Bobby Rush actually said...

"I just don't see how we can avoid it."

"I ask this committee to not to deal with these two bills but to deal with a different kind of drought, the drought of laws..."

"In keeping in line with the majority party's overall agenda of bypassing, overriding, and curtailing the Clean Air Act..."

"While the country literally burns around us, I can't believe that we are here today holding yet another hearing on two issues of far less importance..."