"I think that is a huge mistake. It is like eating your seed corn."
"I am serious about this."
"If you could make an investment of $1 that could result in 26,000 deaths--premature deaths in the United States, and would return economic benefits of a minimum of $5 to the Nation, let us just start ..."
"The only comprehensive assessment of the cost benefit analysis is the one presented by the EPA."
"The Republican budget has proposed a 35-percent cut from last year in efficiency and renewable energy portfolio, and about half of that degree of cut for nuclear. That just doesn't make any sense to m..."
"I so appreciate, Chairman Grijalva, you and Chairman Rahall for introducing this bill and making public lands a part of the service corps acts."
"We have a dearth of diversity on our public lands, our public lands are not represented by the people who represent this country."
"This bill, I think, represents a trifecta of opportunity to solve this."
"Thank you, and particularly thanks to Dale Penny and Sally Prouty for your help with developing a clean energy corps."
"Thank you. The gentleman from Alaska made some comments about a little company in my district, Boeing, and the Boeing 787."
"I met, this morning, with Henry Cagey of the Lummi Tribe, who was telling me about this disaster with the loss of the runs, the Fraser River salmon runs, that has been declared a disaster by the Secre..."
"unless we get a handle on carbon dioxide emissions, we are all in this soup together."