Political Quotes

“I yield myself the balance of my time. What the Republicans are doing in their bill is stripping the EPA of their authority to regulate the fuel efficiency of vehicles that we drive in our country, of the planes, the trains and the boats where we put the petroleum. That's what their bill does. That's what the Supreme Court gave them as authority. The gentleman says, EPA is misnamed. Well, let me just tell you under the Republicans, EPA stands for ``Every Polluter's Ally.'' Under the Democrats, it stands for ``End Petroleum Addiction.'' That's what the Markey amendment does. It gives the EPA the authority to back out this imported oil and to tell them that we're going to use the Oklahoma oil, the Texas oil and the Louisiana oil; but we don't need that oil coming out of the Persian Gulf any more than we need to send 100,000 young men and women over there. Let's set a new policy path here today, ladies and gentlemen. Let's give those OPEC ministers a few sleepless nights. Let's not allow them to look at the Congress, once again ignoring the strength of our country, which is our technological genius, to be able to invent the new technologies that make us less dependent. And what did the Republicans do one month ago? They zeroed out all of the loan guarantees for solar and wind. They zeroed them out of the legislation. That's their all-of-the-above legislation.”