Political Quotes

“I will state for any other Members who come in that I have no intention of yielding. And in my time, in the 4 years I have been here, it has never occurred to me to interrupt in the way that we have been interrupted here, but maybe that actually gets to the point. This bill, as proposed, doesn't work. I want to go back and tell you, as a Member of the North Carolina House, when I was in the minority as a Republican, I supported the renewable portfolio standard. I went to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and said: What you are proposing is not sustainable. Let's work together and do something different. And we did. That gave rise to almost 13 percent of all the energy generated in North Carolina today being generated from renewable sources. It gave rise to a sustainable electric bill that is one of the most competitive in the country. What has happened with the Green New Deal is that the people at the extreme are preventing those of us who actually want to make progress from having a reasonable discussion instead of shouting over each other. I don't care if it is $93 trillion, $43 trillion, or $10 trillion--it is unsustainable. We can sit here and question the sources, but at the end of the day, we all know that this was theater. This was something that people wanted to pitch. They wanted to win an election. But it was a dishonest promise that could never be fulfilled. If you take a look at the other provisions of this bill--guaranteed jobs.…”