"Let me take exception to... there is nothing in the law that says this dust is from rural areas..."
"The Clean Air Act doesn't regulate dust. The Clean Air Act regulates harmful pollutants, and in this case, we are talking about two kinds of pollutants."
"If that rural dust is produced by farm machinery, that could have harmful impact, couldn't it?"
"Today's hearing considers yet another bill to allow more air pollution, more asthma and more heart attacks."
"Mr. Pompeo correctly reads the bill, it removes Federal Clean Air Act over deadly soot pollution from power plants, mines and the like if States if doing so already."
"I hear this all the time, and I have heard it all my career. I have got a simple bill, totally common sense. It only deals with a problem that is on people's minds."
"I invite any witness or member to identify an EPA regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations where EPA imposes limits on farm dust. There are none."
"This isn't a document they have time to review, this is a document they've had since the very first day of our hearings on Solyndra."
"Preventing the Department of Energy from testifying is not fair, suppressing exculpatory evidence is not fair."
"I cannot disagree more strongly with the chairman's statement. The clean energy economy will be the growth industry of this century."
"This agenda may be good for the oil companies, it may be good for the coal companies, but it is terrible for the American people and our economy."