Political Quotes

“I would be glad for the Members of this body to enroll in a science class. I would also be glad for the Members of this body to enroll in a world history class and possibly look at the history of the Earth. Do you realize there were glaciers in Ohio centuries ago? If we are talking about weather today, we are talking about a different topic. We are talking about an administration not following the Administrative Procedure Act. If this is about an administration saying they can change rules as they choose to, I look forward to seeing that same standard being applied to Republican Presidents in the days ahead. But when an administration can change a rule without notice and comment and shift the social cost of carbon by 50 percent in a 3-year time period without following the rule, without following the law, so much so that when we addressed it in a hearing, they admitted it, set the rule aside, and then the EPA chose to use it anyway, we are not talking about weather anymore. We are suddenly talking about the rule of law. {time} 1400 Now, this is not an area on which we had disagreement--Republicans and Democrats--in committee because it was clear that the administration did not follow the rule of law. This is a simple statement. It is not a statement about climate change. It is not a statement about a future ice age or of a future flood. It is a statement about: Do we choose to follow the law or not?…”