"The Deloitte Firm concluded that over the next 6 years the ACA, in Kentucky, would create 40,000 new jobs."
"I introduced today the Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act, legislation requiring the FCC to revise their sponsorship identification rules to take in super-PACs and 501(c)(4) organizations."
"I am much more concerned about the dark money that is used to flood the Nation's airwaves with anonymous ads."
"Disclosure often represents a less restrictive alternative to flat bans on certain types or quantities of speech."
"I think disclosure is the best disinfectant. I think it gives our constituents an opportunity to decide whether or not we are in the clutches of some particular interest group."
"One of the things that astounds me as we talk about environmental issues, and we do week after week in this subcommittee, is that we get a lot of alarmist talk."
"I suspect, and with all due deference to Texas, I don't know Texas' situation, it seems to me that that is a small price to pay to have a significant reduction in carbon emissions."
"In fact, it did receive a majority of votes in both the House and the Senate. It was only killed because of Republicans in the Senate who filibustered that bill."
"I truly appreciate the outreach that the EPA has made to Kentucky and other States."
"Congress at its optimum efficiency moves at about 10 miles an hour, and the world is moving at 100."
"It is a rare instance of bipartisanship where we can actually discuss in harmony a policy that, I think, has great potential for the country."
"We know we can do that."