the greatest threat, in a word, is Russia.

The President's claims that his efforts are about protecting the health of this country or national security are equally disingenuous.

the rhetorical attack, the moral attack, and the regulatory attack, not to mention the various kinds of taxation that go into this, impede the ability of these businesses both to employ people and to provide resources at affordable prices…

Rhetoric aside, President Obama's climate policies have nothing to do with the environment.

His climate change policies aren't protecting this country; they are killing the coal industry.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. Well, he is wrong.

the President's focus on climate change impacting our ability, now, a lot of us up here at this table spend time over there.

I am very thankful that the courts have gotten involved in some of these.

Our Nation's best ideas and economic success stories stem from small businesses. Yet it is small businesses that are most vulnerable to Federal regulatory overreach.

the EPA's failure to consult with small businesses against the Office of Advocacy's recommendation hurt its members.

Why is it that the Federal Government is the chief opposition to everything I am trying to do?

There is a mentality that somehow Government has to intervene to make sure you are taking care of your property and all this.

They don't know how they are going to do it.

That was one of our early successes. Maybe our only success.

It would have devastating effect on the reliability, the reliability, the predictability.

I consider Senator Markey one of my closest personal friends, and I have even back when we were serving in the House together.

Decades later, we are amidst a regulatory regime under the Obama administration that has grown too big and short-changed this process.

Mr. President, we are all concerned about the plight right now of Puerto Rico and what is happening over there financially. And later on this week I will revisit the issue of the 4-year battle of Vieques that took place from 1999 to 2003…