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I am very concerned about transportation funding, because it is necessary to have good roads and bridges all the way across the country to move commerce.

South Dakota tells the true story of what the benefits of trade can bring. When we have a trade agreement with another country, we sell 11\1/2\ times more goods to that country than if there were no agreement in place. Trade has been and…

If we disagree, then we will rewrite a part of the law or amend the law so that you cannot do what you are trying to do or what you misunderstand our intent was in the first place.

Once again, I think we have come down to the heart of what many of us see as one of the major problems with the way the Federal regulatory process works today.

I do not believe the rules being put in place today necessarily do that or that we have the system in place right now that effectively oversees that implementation.

This amendment would actually ask the rulemakers to decide whether or not they could void a law passed by Congress.

So you would do it in 80 or 82...

I think it gives those individuals who have a concern about whether or not you are picking winners and losers, and you should not be picking winners and losers.

The reason I reacted to 110 or 120 ppb is that is an extraordinarily high value.

When businesses are restrained by regulatory overreach, they cannot expand, jobs are put at risk and innovation is stifled.

I am curious, in your studies looking at the sound science side of this, is it even attainable?

The bipartisan CASE Act strikes a balance between economic growth and environmental progress.

The CASE Act simply requires EPA to determine the impact of new clean air standards on the economy and jobs.

It is a reference out of Atmospheric Environment done by Mr. Emery back in 2011.

The cost of a lower smog standard has hardly lessened and the hit this could have on manufacturing and other economic sectors nationwide would be unprecedented.

The President rejected it then because, as he said, our economy could not handle the burden of its substantial price tag.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I would also like to echo the comments earlier.

Okay. Thank you very much.