David Schweikert: “Look, I miss the Science Committee, and I know I have been banned, and I have had a lot of coffee today. I was going to…”

“Look, I miss the Science Committee, and I know I have been banned, and I have had a lot of coffee today. I was going to come up to the microphone and sort of do the blast away, but let me back away. A number of things I have heard in this debate from the left and even a couple of the things from my side, okay, you are conflating all sorts of things that this bill doesn't do. This bill is three pages. So can I ask a question? If I came to you right now and said, ``Tell me that the EPA actually has the right rule sets for hydrocarbons, if it has the right rule set for PM10, it has the right rule sets for ozone,'' you would say, ``Well, I have a peer-reviewed study that says this.'' I want to make the argument, in today's technology, why shouldn't your university, why shouldn't the really smart person who has the computer system in their basement, why shouldn't the new statistical packages that are on these things be allowed to take the data the taxpayers have paid for and work it and model it and bounce it off other types of datasets and ask is the way we model and regulate rational? This bill doesn't reduce regulations. In many ways, it allows us all to participate in the citizen science to understand whether we are doing it the right way. Why is the left so scared of citizen scientists, of university scientists, of people who are just darned interested in the matching of different types of datasets? You and I might find out we are doing things the wrong way.…”