Mr. President, I am going to wait until the Senator from Illinois arrives before making a motion, but I wish to explain what I am going to do. I am going to make a motion when he does arrive. I have an amendment. First of all, being the…

Our country is best served by a complete Commission with each member contributing their diverse views and acting as a collegial body.

Mr. President, I rise today to express my support for Senator Shelby's recently introduced bill, the Southeastern Disaster Tax Relief Act, of which I am an original cosponsor. As an Oklahoma native, I have seen and experienced just how…

this brown stuff down here, it is dirt. Now, that round green thing, that is cotton. This up here is wind.

Well, things are always of most concern when you hear the figures back home.

Just last week, in response to EPA's rules, American Electric Power (AEP) announced they would be forced to close nearly 6,000 Megawatts of low cost (coal) power generation.

The Obama EPA is aggressively moving forward to regulate nearly all aspects of American life--it now has regulations covering dust on farms and puddles of water along the side of road.

First of all, a lot of us contend that the EPA doesn't really need the Air Toxics rule to regulate utility emissions.

All right. In the benefits and costs of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020, that is a 30-year period, and it is your report, it makes some claims, the benefits of about $2 trillion a year and possibly as high as $5.5 trillion a year.

I think a lot of people don't realize that what you said about the merits and successes of the Clean Air Act, I have said many times, and I agree.

Unless we repeal the Clean Air Act or portions thereto, which there are some attempts to do, which have failed, Lisa Jackson has to do her job, or there will be lawsuits and she will have to defend why she is doing nothing.

When EPA reduces toxic air pollution, it helps families and children.

Administrator Jackson, you have admitted that regulating GHGs in the U.S. will have no impact on global GHG concentrations, yet your rules will come at an estimated cost of $300 to $400 billion annually.

Over the past 2 years, the Obama EPA has moved forward with an unprecedented number of rules that will have enormous consequences for families, businesses, and the nation's fiscal well-being.

it will cost PSO, that is in Oklahoma, $800 million in the installation of scrubbers.

Do you expect the $2 trillion in benefits would result in higher economy growth as measured by GDP by 2020?

I would just say this. When our friend, Senator Barrasso, talked about the red, white and blue and about all of the above, it is so frustrating when we sit here and we look at the CRA that came out less than a year ago and it documented…

Industries that use electricity will face higher electricity prices as a result of the Toxic Rule, reduce output and demand less labor.