"If recent history is any indication, then it's not a matter of if, Mr. Chairman, but, rather, when some threat... challenges the resiliency of our nation's energy infrastructure."
"Let me be very clear here, ladies and gentlemen, for the majority of Americans, middle class Americans, Medicaid is what gets you or your mother or your father into a nursing home."
"Now according to the study in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the oldest and most prestigious medical journals, if Republicans take away everyone's coverage over 43,000 people could die ea..."
"But Republican and Democratic governors are begging Republicans here in Washington, please don't do this Congress members, because if Republicans in Congress do, these governors know that their state,..."
"We cannot accept this. We cannot allow Republicans to do this to seniors, to children and to the people with disabilities."
"Hon. Bobby L. Rush, a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, opening statement."
"Mr. Secretary, it has been indeed a pleasure working with you to establish the critically important Minorities in Energy Initiative in DOE."
"I understand that the cable industry is saying that the information that you are requesting that it does not exist in their network..."
"That is extreme and I said it to you when it was mentioned, if you don't agree with the facts, then all of a sudden you are called un-American."
"When are you going to stop the badgering of witnesses before this committee?"
"it is impossible to address the most pressing issues associated with climate change if we simply follow the example of the Republican Party of putting our collective heads deep, deep, deep in the sand..."