"Climate change is the biggest energy challenge we face. There is no debate about the science."
"This committee, and the Republican-controlled House, has become one of the last remaining refuges of the flat-Earth society."
"President Obama got it exactly right in his State of the Union address when he said that if Congress did not act, he would."
"I happen to think, and will you confirm or deny this, that that is the direction we are going to have to go because one of the things about our system is it is broken because we are paying for work do..."
"I have the impression that our system is broken because we are paying for work done and not for accomplishments"
"Successive iterations of the 1988 Satellite Home Viewer Act, SHVA, were enacted by Congress in order to extend the principle of localism to the greatest degree possible to unserved viewers."
"I think we would be well served to confine our efforts here to a clean reauthorization of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act."
"To fail to do this is probably going to project the committee into one of the doggonest donnybrooks in recent history."
"My old daddy used to say to me, son, he would say, it ain't how long you took, but how well you did and how hard you tried."
"I commend you for holding this hearing. It is a fine example of good bipartisan, bicameral progress."
"I believe this demonstrates the urgent need for the Congress to act."
"I believe the existing fee-for-service system turns a blind eye to quality and efficiency."