Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"I appreciate greatly your holding this hearing about threats to animals and ecosystems across the country from changing climate, vanishing habitats and invasive species."

"If you do not have bees, and you do not have bats, you do not have pollination. If you do not have pollination, you do not have fruits and vegetables in America."

"Without the natural order of things, the natural life cycles and many of the roles that bats and insects and other species play, if we do not have the natural order of things, there is much in disarra..."

"Those are all of significant importance to our communities for our clean water and for economic growth for our communities."