Henry Waxman actually said...

"The whole idea of this bill is so that the EPA can take a look at it and say, OK, maybe we need to find a less costly way of doing this if it is a good thing to do."

"This bill relies on an outlandish premise: that EPA's public health and environmental protections provide no benefits at all to the American people."

"If I just looked at the costs, that would be one way to make a decision, but you should look at the costs and benefits."

"As Congressman Waxman explained in his opening statement, the ratio between the cost and the benefits, the benefits exceed the cost by several orders of magnitude in almost all of these rules."