"That reasoning, frankly, is embarrassing. I hope it is to you, too, and a clear overreach by your staff and the EPA who is charged with rulemaking based on sound science."
"If you take something that's not yours, that's called a theft."
"I'm not an advocate for the mine, but I wonder if you feel it's appropriate for career EPA staff to discuss implications of upcoming presidential elections and how it might affect their scientific wor..."
"You've never seen any of the testimony from the depositions that involved Mr. North before?"
"This frustration that I see all the time is the only time we are concerned about money is if it--when it really, truly benefits the public--"
"Sometimes I get to feeling that despite the great-sounding name--Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; it sounds really so wonderful--it is going to just be another government entity that will be used..."
"I like to think that you feel the way you said, which is why I was so disappointed with the Bureau's final no-action letter policy."
"In my office I have kept the register for the last 5 years. It has become a little bit of a tourist spot for people to come in and have their pictures taken with the regulations that the Federal agenc..."
"I just would like to remind everyone that the other side of the aisle had an opportunity to bring in whatever witnesses they desired to."
"Maybe that's why they chose not to have somebody from EPA here."
"if EPA succeeded in destroying this industry where people safely for the public and otherwise compete on private property, it would just be devastating"