Ben Cardin actually said...

"Well, Madam Chair, let me just thank all of our witnesses that are here, and I am really looking forward to today's hearing."

"That is what, I think, is the most exciting thing about this bill, Madam Chair, is that we unleash the American economy with predictability."

"This bill, I think, in a way does change it. Not in a way. It does change it, because it gives a predictable return for energy sources that have a friendlier carbon footprint."

"We can do everything that we can to deal with oil, we just do not have enough of it."