Their businesses are at risk and the people they employ are at risk all the time.

I just wonder, can the EPA actually do this in a timely fashion and in a way that will allow these companies to stay in business?

Mr. Chair, during consideration of H.R. 2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, I voted ``no'' on the Capito Amendment, rollcall No. 566, when it was my intent to vote ``yea.'' Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Polis The…

I will tell you this was not a good program. It did in fact pick winners and losers. It did in fact use taxpayer money.

So to say that, really, the decisions were not made by the Treasury Department--these are all folks that were appointed, in fact, by this administration.

I think today the most important thing we can understand about this hearing is it is not about Democrats and it is not about Republicans, it is about the American people.

I will comment, I am a Chevrolet dealer. The main purchasers of Chevrolet Volts are not the American public.

the decisions were not made by the Treasury Department--these are all folks that were appointed, in fact, by this administration.

To me picking and choosing winners and losers is absolutely up to the free market, it is not up to the government.

Those people should never have been treated like that.

I have to tell you, when I see this type of thing going on and we told the public, geez, General Motors is working so hard and they are paying back all the money. What we didn't tell them was they were using taxpayer money to…