"Since 2008, illegal logging has been reduced by as much as 25 percent worldwide."
"Is undermining a bedrock law the right tone for us to set, especially if it threatens domestic timber industries?"
"The RELIEF Act and FOCUS Act would undermine these successes."
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"The Republicans are so committed to the idea that modernization equals higher energy costs that they wrote it directly into the title of today's hearing."
"The Power Marketing Administrations can and should work toward those objectives."
"Where Secretary Chu sees opportunity for efficiency and improved access to transmission and increased market competition, Republicans see a different opportunity."
"Better planning, wider coordination, and using the best technologies are ways of ultimately reducing costs to consumers."
"Not having the Department present to address those questions makes this a venue ripe for conjecture and misinformation."
"socialist power systems, and restrictions to free competition, of all the things to a socialist in America, this is at the top of the list, that I am very concerned about."
"I think without question what we have here is a political objective, and I think we ought to recognize it as such."