07/17/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"Opening statement"
"I could not agree more. And I think that this is incredibly important, and an incredibly important topic."
"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."
"There are going to be some costs associated with this, but to me, there are also huge costs if we do nothing."