"The Clean Power Plan will accelerate these changes and may pose greater challenges, but they are challenges that we already must and will address."
"EPA's Clean Power Plan is eminently, in my opinion, reasonable and quite modest proposal."
"Supreme Court decisions are the law of the land."
"It is clear to me that they don't have any productive ideas of their own to offer."
"They certainly are working hard to secure their place in history as the least productive Congress in the history of this Nation."
"Today's hearing focuses on the economic impacts of State energy policies."
"In identifying the best system of emission reductions, we certainly have renewable energy and energy efficiency success stories in every region of the country."
"I can assure you there is a war on coal."
"We have to proceed with reason and with caution, and to make sure that we let the science get in front of the regulations."
"We cannot eliminate coal, which seems to be the goal of this administration, without having that passed on to the consumers."
"The Affordable Care Act strengthened our movement away from a healthcare system that rewards providers for the volume of services they provide and toward a system that fosters and promotes high qualit..."
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