Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding the time and for his leadership. I might add that, prior to being in Congress, I was focused on the issue for nearly 10 years as a regulator of the energy industry in North Dakota. I served nearly 10 years on the North Dakota Public Service Commission, where I regulated not only the siting of coal plants, the reclamation of coal mines, but the cost of electricity to consumers. {time} 1530 I have to address some of the comments made by the gentleman from Georgia. I am sure they were sincere. I am sure they were well- intentioned. But to stand here, Mr. Speaker, and lecture us that we are somehow motivated by hatred for the President of the United States is so beneath the dignity of this Chamber, and I am embarrassed for him. Let me tell you that Barack Obama has the right to his opinion, and he is entitled to have it be different than mine. He perfectly has the right to be wrong even, if he wants to be. But he doesn't have the right to break the law because he couldn't get a law changed when he had a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate. And that is what we are here to talk about, the violation of the law, as the chairman has pointed to earlier. I don't even want to deal with the merits of climate change or global warming. I want to deal with the solution. We have heard today that Republicans don't have a solution.…”