"It has been something that means a lot to me as a construction industry and I spent, again, 51 years in it."
"we can't get the permits to get those pipelines built."
"As one of just two licensed engineers in Congress, this is an intriguing process that we're going to undergo."
"I don't see anything about third party certification for public safety, putting public safety first overriding competitive pressures."
"I'm a little concerned about lack of global standards, is cost. No one has mentioned cost up here."
"This issue has come up literally every year since I've been in this committee for the last 6 years and I keep being told that everything is going to be fine, that we have got things under control."
"They all agree that we are still very vulnerable."
"I could--any hostile country--and he said as a matter of fact I could take 10 engineers from U.C. Berkeley and I could shut down the electric grid between Boston and New York within four days."
"I think we all realize that through the CAFE standards it is going to have virtually no impact on the global climate change."
"We know that 23 percent of the weight of a car has been reduced over the numbers of years. That has increased the number of rollovers and increased the number of deaths."
"Am I supposed to feel good in West Virginia, then? I can't buy a car, but health benefits are going to improve around the country?"