Henry Waxman

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.

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.

Well, if that is the best argument Chairman Upton can make for his bill, I think he is truly grasping at straws.

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.

Chairman Upton said that EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would increase gasoline prices.

The Republican budget is the most sweeping and reckless assault on health and the environment we have seen in decades.

Americans know that their family's health and quality of life depend on a clean environment.

Their anti-science, anti-environment agenda may be the will of the Koch Industries but it is not what American families want.

The Republican Party in Congress has become the anti-environment party.

The President's budget is fiscally responsible, yet gives the Agency the resources it needs to protect public health in the environment.

I don't understand how the gentleman from Missouri can say that this is a nefarious group of people. After all, these are people who are scientists, who've won the Nobel Prize for their scientific activities. I used to think that people…

I should trust your analysis more than the Environmental Protection Agency, OMB, the people in the air pollution control business?

If some of the pollution is coming from offshore, from China, which is true, that's no excuse for us to allow more pollution to come from the sources here in the United States. And simply asking businesses to lower their emission levels…

These benefits don't cost the consumer a thing. In fact, they save consumers money.

This regulation is to reduce our dependence on oil, and in fact, as a result of it, for the first time America's oil consumption is flat.

Regulations don't just prevent harm, they can also help our economy.

The purpose is to reduce mercury and lead damage which when it affects our children can lead to lack of brain development.

The cause wasn't regulation; it was the absence of regulation.

It was caused by too little oversight and regulation, not too much.

Now we are hearing repeated claims that regulations destroy jobs and stymie economic growth. This is another myth.

Regulations can make the market work better for everybody while at the same time protecting the public interest.

Let us also not hesitate to regulate where needed to protect our economy and our children's future.

I am a strong opponent of unnecessary regulations.

In contrast, the Republican plan to eliminate safeguards vital to the welfare of Americans makes absolutely no sense at all.

We need to remember that federal regulations also play a vital role in growing our economy and protecting our health and environment.