Bill Johnson actually said...

"It is truly mystifying that a nation suffering a prolonged recession and plagued with increasingly scarce and expensive electricity would adopt a willful and deliberate policy of obstructing construct..."

"Our nation desperately needs affordable electricity, it desperately needs permanent jobs but to get them, it most of all desperately needs commonsense restored to its government."

"I want to commend our sub-committee members Scott Tipton and Paul Gosar who are spearheading the effort to clear away these bureaucratic obstacles..."

"This simple and commonsense solution means vast quantities of hydroelectricity--without a single new dam and at a cost to the government of precisely nothing."