"Kudos to you all for doing it, shame on us for not."
"let us know what we can help, and if you have thoughts on those bottlenecks."
"From your lips to God's ears."
"What are you telling consumers who are sitting there saying, I need a response, you got a 50 percent surge in consumers?"
"All of us in this hearing, yourself included, are entrusted with looking after the public interest."
"We have had 18 months of pretty good, pretty bipartisan hearings, with a recognition that climate is an emergency."
"We do not have time on this committee to make things up."
"For people to sit here on this committee and say the deployment of clean energy is driving up the cost of power are living in fantasy land."
"We have the opportunity to act. We have the opportunity to lower power prices. We have the opportunity to make the world cleaner."
"I want to applaud all your hard work in ensuring a funding increase of $2.5 million, for a total of $22.5 million last fiscal year."
"The scientific consensus could not be clearer. Climate change is an imminent threat to our health, our economy, and our national security, as well as the health of our forests."
"It would take a particularly sadistic boss to cut someone's salary by 50 percent and then give them a 6 percent raise and ask for praise for the raise."