"I was eyeball to eyeball with Elon Musk"
"He just said that they trusted the departments to, you know, instead of using a cudgel to use a scalpel to get rid of people that are unproductive."
"I'm not going to put up with these agitators."
"I'm not going to put up with these agitators. We're not doing it. Republicans are too nice."
"We drastically need more FRA field inspectors to help hold the railroads accountable"
"the railroads need to be put in check, and that is what we are here to do."
"I want to see the actual numbers that you submitted and what they actually paid, because we are not doing this anymore."
"I want it to get off the ground, no pun intended, but we have some programs like that in my district."
"I am going to remind you of something that apparently you have forgotten. I am a member of a co-equal branch of Government, and will be respected, and you will not interrupt me in my house."
"How many children are going to have to continue to work in slave conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to make sure that we can meet the artificial goal of 50 percent of the fleet being e..."
"I don't ever want your children to be exposed to any of this. I don't want my grandchildren to be exposed to any of this."
"No one who has a soul can look at those pictures and say that having an artificial date of 2030 established for 50 percent of our fleet to be electrified is worth a single child working in slavery."