"I am just a poor Polish lawyer from Detroit, but I would remind members of the subcommittee that we are not engineers..."
"We are imposing a congressional straight jacket on the EPA and the administrators of this program."
"The industry has got a legitimate complaint. We ought to hear it."
"my Republicans on the other side there will be inducted into the hall of shame for their refusal to have hearings with scientists on climate change."
"Shame."
"the timing of this hearing does very little to bolster the majority side's arguments for circumventing the review process and forcing through another major pipeline project."
"this subcommittee would be much better served by holding hearings on issues that affect American families and consumers."
"we have sent to you two dozen letters to you and Chairman Upton, since May 2011 requesting that this subcommittee hold hearings into the science of climate change."
"We are going to expect far more disasters in the future."
"In the last Congress, the House Republicans voted to say that climate change was a hoax."
"They say we need a North American energy independence."
"But market economics actually tell us that the most competitive oil will be produced."