Clearly, this a Republican majority that has run out of new bad ideas, so they have just decided to recycle all of their old bad ideas.

According to the EPA, the regulations that are subject to today's hearings will create 46,000 short-term construction jobs.

The idea that EPA requirements to clean up air pollution will hurt the economy and kill jobs is now Republican economic dogma, but these are the same doom and gloom scenarios we have heard from industry since the Clean Air Act was first…

According to EPA, the Mercury Air Toxics Standards will generate up to $90 billion in health benefits each year, far outweighing the costs of compliance.

We should be standing up for the health of infants and children, not the powerful coal and utility industries.

One person's cost is another person's income, and so what is compliance costs from the perspective of the industry is incomes and jobs from the perspective of people installing the pollution abatement and control equipment.

These new standards will have tremendous health benefits.

This committee has had numerous hearings to examine the question--the big picture question of whether new regulations harm economic growth.

Madam Speaker, first of all, the President's Commission, in his BRAC, includes VA properties. As well, former VA Secretary Anthony Principi testified in front of our committee that we ought to be looking at all properties, including VA. If…

Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Miller of Michigan). The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. President, I am also very proud to be here with my colleagues. I think Senator Murray was eloquent, along with Senator Shaheen and Senator Mikulski. I am here to put it in my own words; that is, here they go again. Sadly, politics has…

Sequester doubles the numbers of cuts, does it through that crazy formula, and guarantees that we are going to hollow the force and devastate our national security.

I am looking for William Eaton myself. That was pretty deep there.

On the issue of Israel, I can assure you that we view the relationship with Israel as an essential relationship; essential to their security, essential to our security, and essential to the security of that region.

I do not think you should detrigger sequester on the backs of our civilian workforce.

We sat around a table in Tom Foley's office and worked through a deficit reduction package that included all of the elements.

It is going to impact on compensation. It is going to impact on training and equipment. It is going to impact on personnel. It is going to impact on every area of the budget. And it is mindless. It does not make sense.

I hope to God that all else does not fail, and, I know that everybody is concerned, particularly these days, that somehow that may still be allowed to happen.