Barney Frank: “I generally agree with the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey), but I do have to correct one thing the gentlewoman…”

“I generally agree with the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey), but I do have to correct one thing the gentlewoman said, the President and the administration put out a report. Actually, the administration put out a report. The President seemed to be quite surprised by it, not to the point of actually reading it, because I think it would take more than that to get him to read it; but I was struck by the President's bemusement by the report. So just because the EPA and a group of scientists have said something does not mean that the President chooses to associate himself with it. That does not detract from the validity of the report, but it did seem to me to be a rather interesting precedent being set of a President expressing his surprise that a report issued in his administration's name ought to be noted.”