John Barrasso actually said...

"Accepting the connection can lead to the dangerous expansion of U.S. security concerns, inappropriately applied resources, and diversion of attention from more effective responses to known environment..."

"So I say, why should we then spend billions of taxpayer dollars, defense dollars specifically, on climate change predictions about future conflicts due to drought and famine that the Department's own ..."

"So I ask you, Mr. Secretary: Are there serious unintended consequences to our national security if we go down this path, as Europe has done?"

"Well, that is what I heard when I was in Latvia and Lithuania, that the concerns are that they were supposed to get to 2 percent, but they are unable to, and a lot of it has to do with the expenses th..."