Peter Welch actually said...

"Thank you for all your years of leadership on this, Madam Chair. You have been an inspiration for us."

"Congress and the states would not want the few residents of the reduced D.C. to have so much power over the election of the president."

"I just want to register my outrage at that because so much of the people we represent need that coverage and don't want to be second-class citizens."

"It really is not acceptable."