"I should not have to be servicing a family of a 6-month-old girl."
"God is missing from our schools, and we have a lot to do with it, and I am asking you, when you go back to Washington, DC, send some money here and most of all put God back into our schools."
"opening statement"
"I want to thank you all for joining us this morning for this important hearing entitled 'Building a 100 Percent Clean Energy Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Building Sector.'"
"This hearing is part of a series that we will be holding in this subcommittee and in other subcommittees to highlight areas where we can achieve significant emissions reductions in order to achieve a ..."
"You can't lead where you don't go."
"It is way past the time for the Department of Energy to work within these contracts so that these good old boys networks are not the only entities receiving these lucrative, government-backed contract..."
"Tackling this issue are making our homes, our schools, and our business more energy efficient, will save money, put people back to work, and expand the American middle class."
"I happen to disagree with that. I happen to think that when you set goals, when you set bold and aggressive action and milestones, it does force people to come up with innovation quicker."
"I want to thank you, Madam Chair, and I certainly want to applaud you for holding this critically important hearing."
"We call it the green jobs and--blue and green jobs, and this would impact those out-of-work coal miners, minorities, women and veterans."
"I certainly want to join with all my colleagues in commending Ms. Livingston, whose courage to take her pain and turn it into a pursuit of well-being for all Americans is totally commendable."