I certainly want to commend and salute the work of Senator Burr on these issues over many years in our working together.

I complain loudly and frequently and will continue to complain when you have an authorization level for hospital preparedness, your program under your jurisdiction, when there's a huge gap in the tens of millions of dollars between…

The urgency that Senator Burr is talking about is essential and not just in the heat of the challenge or the crisis.

The Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives... issued a report this month stating that the Boundary Dam project was twice as expensive as alternate generating methods.

I am not sure that the EPA is actually following the law on this.

I would say to my good friend from Nevada that we have documentation that Nevada would be severely hampered by the presence of your lawsuit.

But you are engaging in a discussion that tracks why DHS is not being funded, allegedly because these executive actions are unauthorized.

Changing the definition of obligated party could help to advance the goals of the program, and correct some of the problems we are seeing with the current program.

One of the problems with this program is that it requires the EPA to make predictions each year on two highly uncertain things.

CBO has told us escalating RFS mandates will lead to higher gas prices at the pump.

When the EPA came out with their rule on new source performance standards, you cited a number of examples to show the EPA's standards are feasible.

Texans and families that would have been severely impacted came together and said they stand with the President.

I would prefer him not to be called 'Obama' and to honor the office which he holds.

This is a hearing that contributes to political security and not national security.

the executive actions are in actuality a reflection of those laws being faithfully executed.

You are aware that the partially funded Kemper Project is $3 billion over budget?

We want to make sure that things are--these viable, that people can actually do them.

But it is a retrofit, and it is not the United States.