"If the purpose of lower business taxes is to windfall to CEOs and shareholders stock buybacks and increase compensation, then I don't support that."
"There's only one person in that room who was threatening to default on the credit of the United States."
"I believe very much that this Committee has a very important role to play in the permitting reform conversation."
"I promise you Ranking Member Grassley, hearings in the future, on ways to save healthcare costs that don't require benefit cuts."
"Let's make this a 'can.' We really do need those 30 gigawatts; we really do need these jobs."
"We heard unchallenged testimony from Moody's Chief Economist that the MAGA plan would cost the American economy almost 800,000 jobs and increase the chance of a recession."
"So it is really a dramatic effect. And it is not just a fraction of our fossil fuel energy expenditure, it is a vast multiple."
"The scale of this is really pretty staggering. The figure I use is zeta joules, the joule being the unit of measure of heat energy, zeta being a number that has 21 zeroes behind it."
"I think there is a persistent effort to limit our effort to support wildlife and hold off the great extinction to only what can be monetized."
"The oceans have been estimated to be absorbing 14 zeta joules of heat every year, multiple Hiroshima level explosions worth of heat per second happening in the oceans."
"Thank you very much for being here, Director."