Quotes from Gene Green

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

Shell and Exxon support export, but refiners like Valero could end up paying more for the crude oil.

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.

Congress should let HRSA release its guidance and analyze its impact before making changes to the 340B program that would harm safety-net hospitals and our vulnerable patients.

I hear from broadcasters pretty often. Their ad revenue is down.

As the pace of technology increases, the amount of toxic electronic waste is piling up at home and abroad.

Ultimately, refiners, like all of us, are going to have to clean up their emissions.

The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service.

Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce current law.

What happened with Keystone is it actually poisoned the well for other pipelines that are not as controversial.

It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.

I prefer that we sit down and craft a bill that addresses the many challenges we face, not only domestically, but as a world leader.

It's no secret I was part of John Dingell's whip team.

More than 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does nationally is preventive care - including cervical cancer screenings, breast cancer screenings, and family planning - mostly for women with low resources and income below the poverty line.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.

Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

In some cases, corporations engaged in this activity have as much as 16 percent of their profits generated through the holding of 'janitor's insurance.'

Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.

You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.

The result may not be perfect. But our forefathers wanted us to compromise to get things done for America.