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Tom Rice
@tomrice· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

We have to offer solutions. I believe it is one of the factors that is holding our economy back.

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Trey Gowdy
@treygowdy· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

There is a palpable animus, a hostility toward conservatives that comes through in her work emails.

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Trey Gowdy
@treygowdy· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

Congress... has not only the right but, frankly, an obligation to provide oversight over an agency.

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Tom Rice
@tomrice· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

We have got to get the American people aware that you have got to get to work. It is about jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs.

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Trey Gowdy
@treygowdy· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

The President of the United States... prejudges an investigation while the investigation is pending.

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Tom Rice
@tomrice· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

If you talk about reducing the outgo, cutting people's benefits, you make that population angry.

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Tom Rice
@tomrice· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

We have got less money coming in than going out in the long run, and that money will run out eventually.

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Trey Gowdy
@treygowdy· Republican · SC· Sep 20, 2016

I want you to imagine waking up and you learn that agents of an agency that you already fear... are targeting people based on their political ideology.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2016

I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) would vote ``yea.'' The yeas and…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2016

Mr. President, I can still recall the first briefing I had as a Member of Congress on something called HIV/AIDS. I didn't know much about it. I heard the words, but I didn't understand them until this briefing brought to mind and brought…

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John Conyers
@johnconyers· Democratic · MI· Sep 20, 2016

successful impeachments are bipartisan efforts, and partisan attacks cloaked in the impeachment process are doomed from the start.

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Rob Bishop
@robbishop· Republican · UT· Sep 20, 2016

This should be the end of assessments required by NEPA.

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Rob Bishop
@robbishop· Republican · UT· Sep 20, 2016

For CEQ, it appears that advancing a questionable agenda at all costs is more important that ensuring that the law, science, and sound economic reasonings are going to be honored.

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Rob Bishop
@robbishop· Republican · UT· Sep 20, 2016

Hundreds of NEPA-related lawsuits have been filed against the Federal Government during this Administration, and this guidance will encourage these litigious groups.

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Rob Bishop
@robbishop· Republican · UT· Sep 20, 2016

That is not how our system of government is supposed to work.

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Rob Bishop
@robbishop· Republican · UT· Sep 20, 2016

However, it is Congress' responsibility, through oversight and passing legislation, not the executive branch's responsibility through guidances.

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Rob Bishop
@robbishop· Republican · UT· Sep 20, 2016

The committee will come to order, as well as the audience, even though you haven't said a word already this morning.

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Rob Bishop
@robbishop· Republican · UT· Sep 20, 2016

This guidance, rather than helping the environment, in the end will hurt it by driving up the costs for processing of permitting activities that support millions of jobs.

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