If we eliminate the SBA's valuable programs specifically targeted for women, what are we saying about the value that we place on women in our country and our belief in their ability to play a vital role in turning this economy around?

I appreciate the timely and comprehensive response Administrator Mills provided my office and believe these administrative changes present additional deterrence to those who perpetuate fraud against the Government.

Government contracts are perhaps one of the easiest and most inexpensive ways the Government can help immediately increase sales for America's entrepreneurs, giving them the tools they need to keep our economy strong and create jobs. By…

It is our duty in Congress to provide the statutory tools necessary to create additional deterrence against fraud.

Cutting the Women's Business Center program will compromise SBA's legacy and its ability to help lead the Nation out of this recession and will call into question the fundamental reason for their existence.

That is why I support the Tennessee Valley Authority's recent decision on coal, to either close its coal plants or put pollution control equipment on all of its plants by 2020.

The Transport Rule will help reduce that. In doing so, it will serve our economy by avoiding the significant health costs.

Today, the Clean Air Act is being implemented in a way that bears no resemblance to what Congress intended.

it could have just the opposite effect. Because as we lose our jobs... it could have an increased effect.

The arguments against, I think, are very often not particularly well-founded.

Finally, on the Boiler MACT provision, I think that rule belongs on another planet somewhere. It is completely unrealistic.

the Obama EPA is aggressively moving forward to regulate nearly all aspects of American life.

American Electric Power announced that they would be forced to close nearly 6,000 megawatts of low cost coal-powered energy.

President Obama has a cap and trade agenda that is specifically designed to raise the prices of energy by forcing coal and oil out of the market.

The Clean Air Act is in dire need of modernization.

the agency's voluntary reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground level ozone... could lead to significant economic constrains in the Country.

the Obama EPA has moved forward in an unprecedented number of rules that will have enormous consequences on families and businesses and the Nation's fiscal well-being.

Every one of our 50 States has put out mercury advisories, warning pregnant women and children not to eat certain kinds of fish for fear of causing permanent neurological damage.