Michael Burgess actually said...

"Putting an industry with a critical infrastructure in the position of choosing which agency's rules to violate is bad public policy."

"You may be familiar that members of the Texas delegation on a bipartisan basis on this committee met with Mr. Sunstein of Office of Management and Budget right before the August recess concerning the ..."

"Did we just ignore FERC's recommendations? Because they don't seem to be completely coincident with the decisions that you made."

"If people like what they have, they may not able to keep it. I think that is a fair statement."