"So far from watering the resolution down, we strengthened that resolution. We made it a powerful statement of the values of this institution."
"I mean, it seems to me like midnight would be a reasonable time to go."
"We have also had a bipartisan political consensus endorsing the scientific consensus that has suddenly been ripped apart."
"We have actually had decades of scientific consensus about the anthropogenic causes and the dangerous dynamics of climate change."
"If 97 percent of the scientists told you not to drink the water in the Cannon House Office Building because it is not potable..."
"I want to salute my colleague David Cicilline for his really passionate advocacy and stewardship of this legislation."
"Sometimes when you are in the middle of the trees, you lose sight of the forest. So I want to make sure we remark upon what a great and historic day this is, that we are taking up the Equality Act."
"Obviously, the expansion of marriage to include all of our citizens didn't undermine marriage at all."
"The H.R. 5 is going to help improve outcomes for more than 437,000 children and young people in the child welfare system."
"This committee does not accept the argument that you can withhold documents or testimony from us because you have other separate litigation."
"your decision was also struck down on the basis of the Enumerations Clause, so it was constitutional as well."