Instead of robust review and meaningful input from small businesses prior to issuing a regulation, the Obama-EPA has treated the RFA has a mere 'check-the-box' exercise.

This is what the President came up with and made a commitment in Paris that we in the United States would reduce emissions by between 26 and 28 percent by 2025.

The poetic justice part of it is I now chair the committee that has jurisdiction over the bureaucracy that tried to put me out of business for 20 years.

If we had done a better job of passing the regulations to begin with it wouldn't be necessary for the courts to come in and intervene.

Do you have any concern at all, for you, that SEC is headed toward and being directed by Congress, by the way, or by an outside entity, toward a more political position, rather than being a fair-minded arbitrator in some things to be able…

EPA has identified $384 billion in drinking water needs and $271 billion in wastewater needs over the next 20 years based on capital improvement plans developed by local utilities.

The affordability of water and wastewater infrastructure is a critical concern around the country.

I acknowledge that there are a lot of problems that we have, but there are a lot of solutions just from members of this committee.

Mr. President, first of all, I ask unanimous consent to be recognized as in morning business to use as much time as I shall consume. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, I want to comment that I have dramatically shortened my presentation, as I was crossing off things from my list that have already been more eloquently expressed by my friend from Kansas, and I think it shows. He brought out…

I have every conference. I am in the leadership; I have talked to the leadership on our side, Barbara has done the same thing on her side, and I am anticipating that we will be able to do this, get this out of committee, on the floor…

I believe that that attitude of, frankly, an arrogant, dictatorial attitude out of the agency is very real for most cities.

We need increased investment. It is very, very clear.

the EPA treats some of the small communities like prosecutors.

Our concern is the fact that it is a policy; it is not the law.

I think these are some of the things that we can do in our committee.

As parents in Flint know, there is no safe level of lead in children.

Would any of the other three commissioners object to this request that I am making?