"Most of the mail I get on this issue, Mr. Chairman, is from people who do not own horses, who have never been around horses."
"Why would that be a problem to get some language that would eliminate that kind of ridiculous interpretation because these dual-use facility things are really good."
"We would end paying for them in indigent care in some other facility when they are actually entitled to medical care."
"What is your comfort level that Johnson-O'Malley funds... are actually used as they are intended to be used?"
"this idea that you have to give up part of your sovereignty to get some of it is really incredibly offensive."
"I think there really is a very strong bipartisan constituency for this sort of thing..."
"I am all for shifting."
"At the end of the day, attitude is everything."
"my instinct would tell me, we are going down cap-and-trade because those of us that believe in taxing carbon, frankly, either do not think we can get the votes or do not want to have the vote; and tha..."
"I have learned a lot today, Mr. Chairman."
"I am delighted, I want to go on record, this idea of having a contingency fund to deal with the fire problem."