"There is a couple words that come to mind--negligence, incompetence."
"the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, is fundamentally flawed. It can't be fixed and is imposing unsustainable, ever-increasing costs on Americans including my western New York constituents."
"I foresee real difficulties. I can't fit them together. I don't know how that is going to work."
"I think there is work to be done on a bipartisan basis if we want to."
"I have been on this committee for 30 years. So I have lived through most of what you folks talked about."
"I commend you all for what you are doing today."
"The Chair recognizes the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Pallone, for 6 minutes and 11 seconds."
"First and most important is we have to have an absolutely guaranteed adequate base load supply."
"I have never had a question at a townhall meeting about an ISO or an RTO or any of the things that we have to do to make the system work."
"And finally, you have got to have a retail framework that the customers consider fair."
"Second, you have to have a transmission system that has adequate capacity to deliver that supply."