"These new standards will have tremendous health benefits."
"We should be standing up for the health of infants and children, not the powerful coal and utility industries."
"This committee has had numerous hearings to examine the question--the big picture question of whether new regulations harm economic growth."
"According to EPA, the Mercury Air Toxics Standards will generate up to $90 billion in health benefits each year, far outweighing the costs of compliance."
"These regulations are expected to have particularly positive effects under current economic conditions."
"Well, many of my Republican colleagues talk about the cost of complying with EPA's rules as if the money spent on pollution controls and upgrades goes into a black hole."
"In addition to the overblown rhetoric about the impact of this rule on jobs, some have warned that this rule will cause electricity prices to skyrocket."
"The idea that EPA requirements to clean up air pollution will hurt the economy and kill jobs is now Republican economic dogma, but these are the same doom and gloom scenarios we have heard from indust..."
"According to the EPA, the regulations that are subject to today's hearings will create 46,000 short-term construction jobs."
"It is stunning to realize that this committee of Congress... reported legislation that simply rubber-stamped the current program for 7 additional years."
"We didn't do our job, and that legislation needs to be revisited in light of this new information."