"I called the hearing or the interview a farce because she had White House counsel, her own personal counsel, about six different lawyers there telling her that she could not answer anything."
"I think the immunity argument is ludicrous. I think it will get destroyed."
"I did get the sense that she would have probably answered many of those questions, but the White House clearly was engaged in on going obstruction of justice and instructing her not to answer."
"The only people who fail to understand the seriousness of climate change are the Trump Administration and some of our Republican colleagues."
"We can't afford to have an Administration that continues to deny climate change, and handicap the agencies and programs responsible for responding to it."
"It is our responsibility, as the Budget Committee, to review the issues that threaten our fiscal health and our constituents."
"if you really want to know which party cares about climate change, let's look at which party pulled us out of the Paris accord."
"It is crazy to talk about it in terms of a cost, because what it is is a vision."
"the White House took the unusual step of refusing to approve the written testimony of a top intelligence analyst at the State Department."
"While any president has the right to ignore or act in contradiction to the advice of top government scientists, it is clear that the goal of this ad hoc Committee is to undermine legitimate science it..."
"The Trump Administration's attempt to bury critically-important scientific analysis by our top intelligence agents is horrifying and dangerous."
"A very small number of companies exert a great deal of control over what news and information each of us sees."