Political Quotes

“I thank my friend from California for his leadership. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 910. My friend Mr. Blumenauer made the point that there is a deliberate misleading title to this bill somehow cynically allowing voters to believe that this is about taxes. I had an amendment before the Rules Committee that, unfortunately, was not accepted. How about we be intellectually honest about this? Let's rename the bill the Koch Brothers Appreciation Act of 2011. At least then we could clear the air and be honest; but then again, that's what this bill is all about, not clearing the air but ensuring that it stays polluted. Today, sadly, the other party will attempt to pass a bill that denies decades of science in order to protect the profits of a few favored corporations. Next, we may hear claims that the Earth is, indeed, flat. When Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, it directed the EPA to protect the public health and welfare from pollution that would alter weather and climate. In the last 40 years, hundreds of peer- reviewed scientific papers have found that global warming is caused by humans, is becoming worse, and poses a dire threat to our public health, national security and economic vitality. This bill makes Congress the final arbiter of science. That is a perilous path, Mr. Chairman, to go down, and it repudiates 100 years of bipartisan efforts to craft public health legislation according to science.…”