Gerry Connolly actually said...

"we're delighted that we have a piece of legislation we can act on and we begin somewhere, and this is our somewhere."

"The climate crisis affects us all, and particularly, the most vulnerable and those with the fewest resources."

"So is it my absolute right as a sovereign nation if something is entirely within my sovereign territory to destroy it, even if it has planetary consequences, and that's an unanswerable question at thi..."

"there have to be economic incentives built in and that's what this legislation does."