Ron Wyden actually said...

"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."

"I think we can't leave rural America behind."

"The challenges that we face in the U.S. on energy, on climate change, are too important not to base our decision-making on solid facts, on solid data, on solid analysis."

"There are 44 separate tax breaks for energy. Many of those breaks date back to yesteryear, and I have an effort to collapse those 44 into 3."