05/12/2009
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"Your budget proposes deep and arbitrary cuts that threaten progress on addressing one of our most pressing challenges and that is climate change."
"I have lived long enough to know what it was like to be energy-dependent and now to be 90 percent of the way to independence."
"the administration has chosen to eliminate the weatherization and State energy program that helps individuals across our country save on energy costs"
"I want to thank the ranking member for his remarks, and I endorse them."