When President Obama took the oath of office, we were bleeding 800,000 jobs a month.

they won't be able to get it unless we have a strong national Clean Air law

God knows some of us tried. But we have not done our job.

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

We have the AFL-CIO telling us there is sufficient labor to cover the needed work on the power plant.

the effects of the economy, I spent a lot of time in Africa.

I think the whole notion that cleaning up the environment harms our economic growth is a myth.

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

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

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.

I think we hear relentlessly in this building from the polluting side.

The Clean Air Act is in dire need of modernization.

If EPA gets wounded in its ability to protect the Clean Air Act, I have a real problem on my hands.

We had a witness from Rhode Island at that table a week ago describing the asthma problem in Rhode Island.

the more we could do to actually get people working again, in terms of actually being things for the general overall health of all these very skilled physicians and their patients, one of the best things we could do is actually improve the economy, get people back to work, raise the gross domestic product, raise that, lower the unemployment rate, and we ought to be focusing on the economy.