Ron Wyden actually said...

"I could not agree more. And I think that this is incredibly important, and an incredibly important topic."

"There are going to be some costs associated with this, but to me, there are also huge costs if we do nothing."

"your grandfather's power lines were fit for your grandfather's weather events, and what we have to have is a modern system of power lines to deal with today's weather events."

"This morning I introduced legislation to begin the modernization of America's power infrastructure so that we can deal with these horrendous weather events that we have been seeing around the country."