Without Federal technical assistance and funding, States may be unable to maintain their delegated programs.

I thank the Chairman for calling this hearing so that we can examine the way federal and state regulators work together to protect public health and the environment.

After enduring public ridicule, the legislature succeeded in blocking the Coastal Resources Commission from estimating rates of sea-level change until July 1, 2016.

I am pleased the chairman is moving forward with this hearing early in this Congress.

In my home State of California, the manufacturing sector adds more than $200 billion to the economy.

The only thing I have seen out of that--we provide hospitalization for our employees. Our insurance cost just went up 20 percent a year for the last 2 years.

We shouldn't have this SGR threat hanging over us every year.

Manufacturing is also a key building block for strong and stable middle class in this country.

Medicare is vital to the health of seniors in our country, and physicians are a vital part of Medicare.

It is no longer acceptable to accept the status quo.

A strong manufacturing sector is vital to our identity as a nation.

Manufacturing is also a key building block for a strong and stable middle class in this country.

We need that. But when something is enacted, get to it, then, on specifically what we have got to do about that.

Once an air pollution standard is in place, American industry gets to work and meets it.

Just saying no, pretending it doesn't exist, is just a recipe for climate disaster.

So now they are attempting to do, by regulation, what cannot be done through legislation.

We have fostered the development of satellite as a viable competitor in the video market, preserved and expanded access to local broadcast content.

It is my hope that our work this Congress will proceed in the same bipartisan manner.

So we know, from decades of experience, that the Clean Air Act drives innovations in pollution control.

Why in the world would a country, struggling with economic growth, trying to be competitive in the global marketplace, say to its citizens, and make a policy decision without a national debate, that one of our most abundant resources will…

The bill before us is a recipe for climate disaster.

Almost every time EPA proposes a significant new requirement, industry tells us it can't be done.

Since 1970, when President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, we have had a law that had several key features that have helped make it one of the most successful environmental laws in the world.

If this committee is truly concerned about the future of coal, it should be doing everything possible to advance the carbon capture technologies.

You could change it around so that you would return to some of the provisions that were in the Waxman-Markey bill.