Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"The predictions of gloom and doom... exactly the same kind of predictions that were made in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment fight."

"There is $700 billion a year leaving from the pockets of our citizens to go to countries that do not like us."

"If you cannot breathe, you cannot work."

"The purpose of the Waxman-Markey bill is to get us off foreign oil so that we are energy independent, to create millions of jobs as we move toward other technologies, and to protect our children from ..."