I believe that there should be local flexibility to accommodate common sense concerns from the administrators at the local level.

I think what I am left with is a lot more questions than I had before I came in.

I encourage the Cruise Lines International Association to work with Congress to find a market-driven solution.

The regulation we are here to discuss today is EPA's most blatant over-reach thus far.

The President seems determined to wage an all-out war on coal, launching costly regulations that would have little effect on changing the climate.

I do not believe the reauthorization act is the appropriate vehicle for a cruise passenger protection bill.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 100, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall…

What good is flexibility if there is no chance of flexibility?

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will cause in the foreseeable future catastrophic heating of the earth's atmosphere and disruption of the…

This is a fact worth repeating. There has been no rise in global average temperatures over the past 17 years.

The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

The attorney general of West Virginia says, having been regulated under Section 112, the EPA lacks the legal authority to further regulate these emissions under Section 111(d).

In fact, in States like Mississippi, we are being punished by EPA for having a diversified portfolio of electrical generation.

The Clean Air Act Section 111(d) affirmatively prohibits EPA from regulating any air pollutant emitted in an existing source category which is regulated under the national emission regime of Section 112 of the Clean Air Act.

We need to protect passengers from crime. We need to ensure access to medical care while on the high seas.

Imagine a small town of that size, for example, in rural Mississippi. Imagine my native home of Pontotoc, Mississippi, where there are some 5,700 people living, and what if we only had two medical professionals in the whole town?

Congress deserves the opportunity to examine how we can strengthen the transparency of crimes on the high seas.

I wish to subscribe to the views of my colleague from North Dakota on the importance of developing our great resource of natural gas and turning it into a liquefied form and solving a lot of the problems we face around the world. I also…