"You can't pay for a service that doesn't exist, even if you have got the money."
"I completely agree that the U.S. must remain a leader in wireless technologies."
"Unemployed Americans don't need wasteful green energy projects and top-down mandates. They need jobs, the kind of good-paying jobs that come with energy dominance."
"The CLEAN Future Act doesn't hide its bias against fossil fuels."
"If the legislation we are discussing today was to become law, thousands of men and women I represent, millions across our nation, will be forced to take a significant pay cut."
"The shutdown of these industries would mean the loss of thousands of good-paying blue-collar jobs that would be replaced with vague promises of lower-paying green jobs in far-off places."
"I hope all of our committee can figure out a way that we are not so reliant on hostile countries, including China, to process and also to mine."
"So I think there is no doubt as a--you know, as a sane energy security issue, we need to work to diversify these sources of minerals and their processing."
"laws designed for telephones doesn't work for broadband"
"I would argue that this is actually the tactical implementation plan for the Green New Deal."
"We need more American energy innovation expanding into industrial uses."