Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. I hear what he is saying, but I think that we have to work harder together to embrace the future and not just depend on the past. I agree with him on fossil fuels and rare earths. We visited the fossil fuel energy center in southwest Pennsylvania. I was fascinated by some of the work going on there. I think we need to fund it, and we are. This amendment reduces funding for the Department of Energy's energy efficiency and renewable energy account by $1.2 billion, and I don't think that that places America in the position I want her to be in, which is number one in the world. Now, that proposal is also on top of another $466 million reduction in the underlying bill itself and the $1 billion reduction incorporated by the manager's amendment. This funding provides for clean, affordable, and secure energy and ensures American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy. I will tell you, this past year in my region of the United States-- and it came here to Washington, ultimately--a very strange haze began floating down from Canada into the United States due to the forest fires up there and the changing nature of the environment. I have lived in the same place my whole life, and I never saw anything like that before. It ruined my rhododendron plant. All that gunk got all over it.…”