Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I have been listening to this debate in my office on television. Virtually, in other words, I have been watching. I thought everybody would be interested to know I didn't have a T-shirt on, and I wasn't in a golf cart. I was in my office. But it was virtual, Mr. Chairman. First of all, there is an aspersion on this bill for dealing with climate change. We are here in the midst of a pandemic. It is a terrible scourge on our country and on our people and on our economy. And our President called it a hoax. Our President has also called climate change a hoax. Mr. Speaker, if we are put to sleep by the assertion of the challenge being a hoax, we will not act. We acted very late on this pandemic. This bill seeks not to act too late for the pandemic that we call climate change that all the scientists, the overwhelming majority of scientists, say will have a catastrophic effect on our global environment and the support of life itself. And so, yes, this bill deals a lot with climate change because we have a vision of trying to solve the problem before it becomes the pandemic that kills 125,000 people in America, and, of course, according to science, that will be in the millions not the 125,000s. And there has been a lot of discussion, Mr. Speaker, about this is not bipartisan. In the 2016 election we had a lot of bipartisanship in terms of infrastructure. We said we needed infrastructure. The President said we needed infrastructure.…”