Chris Hollen actually said...

"we are spending taxpayer money to reduce carbon dioxide, and the only reason I can see for spending taxpayer money on doing that is if we have a benefit from reducing carbon dioxide."

"I would just hope, if we are going to be taking this public policy direction as a Committee, that we not look at just this very important piece, and it is an important piece, but that we look at every..."

"the reason we are actually spending taxpayer dollars to do this is that there is a public good to be had from reducing carbon."

"the President just signed something that added over $1.5 trillion to the debt."