"How do you answer that criticism?"
"I just think it is important to note that when you say something so unequivocally, and then the policy allows you to cut back the volumes, it is a mixed signal to folks out there who are making invest..."
"How do you reconcile the statement that you made: 'This final rule represents EPA's commitment and continued support for the steady growth in renewable fuel use,' that is your statement, with EPA's de..."
"I just hope that when we make a commitment, we don't undermine it with waivers and other things."
"the level was set at a level that the industry said was below what they could meet"
"We shouldn't act hastily when just a few years ago or a couple years ago we were saying, oh, my God, we have to become more self-sufficient."
"So you are saying it is a short-term phenomenon?"
"Do you think it is important that we do what we can to get that carbon out of the air so we can try our best to reduce the ravages of climate change?"
"Well, we have lived through that before, haven't we?"
"But I think it is important that people understand this because Media Matters points out the various huge grants you have received from big oil."
"I resent it, and I would like to say for the record that we know that Secretaries Rice and Powell used their own private email."
"I think we should be working together on the subject of today's hearing."