I have suggested for a number of years that we use an approach we have taken for years, and that is the people, the businesses that use our transportation system would actually pay for them.

Let me assure you from my conversations with the President-elect on trade.

The biggest issue I have with the CFPB is that I do not believe they should be funded out of profits from the Federal Reserve.

we don't often have the kind of disruptions in this room and in this building that we are witnessing here today.

In 2011 the EPA required dirty coal power plants to clean up mercury and air toxic emissions by issuing the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards Rule.

EPA is required to regulate mercury because EPA determined that mercury emissions from power plants pose an otherwise unaddressed significant risk to health and the environment and because controls options to reduce this risk are available.

Human exposure to methylmercury resulting from coal-fired electric-generating utilities is exceedingly small.

If you believe that the EPA should not move forward on the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, how do States clean up mercury?

Senator Lamar Alexander and I worked together for a number of years on Clear Skies legislation.

I like to say that in adversity lies opportunity.

In my very first hearing as a United States Senator on this Committee, we had the Assistant Administrator, Janet McCabe.

The moneys that you are referring to, were those donations that were disclosed, fully disclosed?

I am not the Attorney General of Delaware, never had any intention to be, but if 17 of our counties in Delaware--we only have 3--if 17 of them or all 3 of them got Fs, I promise you, I would do something about it.

the Corps, the DOJ, and the EPA have gone beyond what we consider to be reasonable application of the law.

We were interested in having an outside panel, and it was explained to us that that is not really the tradition of the Committee.

I appreciate the way you've conducted this hearing today.

I would just ask that you think back on our earlier conversation, and you see your way clear to have one more round.

If confirmed, can we have your assurances that the EPA will continue to regulate mercury emissions from power plants under section 112 of the Clean Air Act, and you will not defer to the States?