"I want to find out where it was written that my Republican friends would come up with this idea about lying what was in the bill."
"I fear that what we are seeing is another--in a series of assaults on the Clean Air Act."
"If we delay these requirements to clean up toxic air pollution, our children and many other Americans will suffer serious, and in many cases, irreversible harm."
"Delaying these rules will hurt a large number of people, especially children."
"American families have waited long enough."
"But that won't happen if Congress repeals or blocks the Clean Air Act and stops EPA from doing its job."
"The major flaw in EPA's analysis is that it makes overly optimistic assumptions about the effectiveness and availability of certain control technologies."
"With straining to do it, it is in the 2015 to 2018 timeframe that industry can get there."
"These standards could and should have been adopted years ago, and if industry hadn't said the cleanup couldn't be done, we would have already done it."
"Rather than get going and getting this accomplished, we saw delays. Industry pushed for delays."
"Not only did a court with Republican and Democratic appointees reject the arguments, but in fact they quoted Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland for the absurdity of the legal argument."
"Well, at last EPA's proposed a defensible standard. It is consistent with the Clean Air Act."