"But nuclear energy, on the other hand, is not competitive unless the government subsidizes it."
"The President's budget is fiscally responsible, yet gives the Agency the resources it needs to protect public health in the environment."
"The Republican Party in Congress has become the anti-environment party."
"Their anti-science, anti-environment agenda may be the will of the Koch Industries but it is not what American families want."
"Americans know that their family's health and quality of life depend on a clean environment."
"The Republican budget is the most sweeping and reckless assault on health and the environment we have seen in decades."
"Chairman Upton said that EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would increase gasoline prices."
"So it is rather Orwellian, you have regulations dealing with motor vehicles that reduce the requirement that they use--reduce their need to use as much gasoline as otherwise would be the case."
"Well, if that is the best argument Chairman Upton can make for his bill, I think he is truly grasping at straws."
"Administrator Jackson, you have a critically important job. Your regulations keep kids out of the emergency room, avoid birth defects in babies, prevent cancers that can devastate families."
"I don't think that is what the American people want. And if they find out that is what is happening, I am sure they are going to be very, very angry."
"It wasn't regulations that caused our financial collapse and the deepest economic recession since the Great Depression. It was unbridled deregulation."