"I look forward to hearing from our witnesses this morning about how communities can, and are, using smart technologies to provide safe and efficient mobility solutions."
"I do greatly appreciate your desire to utilize this committee's authority to get to the bottom of what's causing these mysterious illnesses."
"I've talked to number of people in my district--we have industry, we have agriculture--who appreciate the EPA's new tone."
"For decades now, we have known that smoking is dangerous and linked to cancer."
"It's our responsibility. We're supposed to fix it."
"the commission to assess the threat from electromagnetic pulse attacks warned that a high-altitude EMP would be, they quote, 'an existential threat to the survival of the United States and its allies'"
"It is a crisis. It is real. And we do not get anywhere by blaming the people who are doing their best to help these people."
"Real compassion would have been for us to do something about this and have the wisdom and foresight to avoid the situation that we've seen over the last couple of weeks instead of implementing policie..."
"Obamacare, as it was dubbed, should have been more dubbed Obama coverage."
"So we're not really comparing apples to apples here when we paint Federal employees with a broad brush?"
"The purpose of the Act was to ensure that Federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan manner."