I find it really an affront to the sensibility of the idea and notion of the free marketplace, of capitalism, of freedom of choice.
You busy bodies always want to do something to tell us how we can live our lives better.
But you restrict our choices, correct?
Everything costs more to go back and retrofit the toilets that don't work.
You take away our choices. These things you want us to buy are often made in foreign countries.
I find it really appalling and hypocritical.
The laws and the statutes that this Committee has championed provide an adequate basis, a fine basis.
I thought we did away with earmarks.
Enhanced review process is an accurate description of what is happening because you have practically stopped issuing permits.
the MOU that was entered into in 2009 practically handed over the judgment on whether or not to issue a mining permit to the EPA.
Do you call these earmarks?
I think you have surrendered to the EPA on issuing permits. And that is sad.
I have got coal mines closing and people being laid off. And they say, why can't you do anything about the EPA and the Corps of Engineers?
We have truly reached not just a crossroads but I think a crisis.
I have told you a thousand times how important it is economically what you are doing there.
It is just a street-level uprising. How do you explain that?
I think a friend bought is not a friend, and I think a friend that is coerced by military power is not a friend and breeds resentment.
What is wrong with swearing off support for and aid for all dictators?
