"To badger them with questions that are simply sound bites for the press does not strike me as a fair way."
"We are going to pass laws... without a single moment of hearings just because some representatives want to and maybe the Republican party wants to respond to big business."
"This is the most anti-environment House of Representatives in history."
"The Latta amendment will reverse 40 years of clean air policy, allowing our national goals for clean air to be determined by corporate profits, not public health."
"We should hear from States, industry, public health groups, clean air advocates and other stakeholders before voting on these radical clean air amendments."
"One hundred and twenty-five votes to weaken the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act."
"The Whitfield amendment will eviscerate the law's ability to require power plants to install modern pollution controls."
"I would like to offer my report to be in the record, and that is the 125 in our tally votes to weaken the Clean Air Act."
"When you propose a rule, you have to establish a record of the scientific basis for your findings."
"this amendment would change the criteria for addressing pollution that is generated in one State but is blown by the wind and causes unhealthy air quality in a downwind State."
"The Whitfield amendment would ensure that power plants would not have to control toxic air pollution for at least 7 years."