Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"Science was under attack, under constant attack in the previous Administration, which did its best to ignore, censor and suppress science."

"I am pleased to say, to note, that the Obama administration has already reversed some of the anti-science and anti-transparency policies of the past."

"We do not want to leave the impression or the reality in place that the Government of the United States will, will be able to and will have the capacity to exercise judgments over the day-to-day opera..."

"You've taken on a formidable task and, so far, I think that the score in the ball game is going your way, but we are quite a distance from the ninth inning."