"I am in full support of all the nominees today on both panels."
"The legislative debate regarding Clean Water Act jurisdiction will be a controversial issue that the Obama administration will have to deal with."
"What will you do to ensure the Corps maintains the ability to exercise its independent and primary decisionmaking authority as Congress intended?"
"Are you willing to work with Congress, as well as the navigation industry, to try to find an answer to this problem?"
"I believe that there are individuals in the EPA that would like to see coal removed from our energy portfolio."
"Are you saying then that you don't think we should proceed with that development and give a communication to the Governments of Poland and the Czech Republic?"
"EPA works for the American people. They don't work for a President, they don't work for us, they work for the people."
"I think it is the more honest way of doing it."
"There are a lot of people who believe that should have been done for about $20 million."
"You said scientific integrity and rule of the law, that is going to drive you."
"I don't want anyone to go out of here saying that I want to have a carbon tax. I don't."
"I want a commitment that you will take the time in the next, let's say in the next 2 weeks, to pull up the record on my last Monday's speech, it was a whole hour on the floor of the U.S. Senate, on sc..."
"I think he did a very good job in a very difficult environment."
"I don't agree with the criticisms of many on this Committee on the current Administration not being forthcoming and providing all the information needed."
"I tell you these things because I want both you and Ms. Sutley to succeed, and I want to work with you to protect the environment."
"That means, for example, protecting Missouri families and workers from climate change proposals that would raise energy costs by $6.7 trillion."
"We cannot support plans pushed by Northeast and West Coast States that will hit coal-dependent Missouri and Midwest manufacturing jobs especially hard."
"Missouri families are suffering right now. Missouri families face foreclosure from the housing crisis and recession job loss."
