"All I am trying to do is grow peaches, I have been doing that for five generations, how hard can it be."
"The fear factor that my friend mentioned, one of your statements in your opening statement said 'at this time.'"
"I want to have that on the record because that is part of this whole debate of the concern of ratcheting it down."
"Do you agree that concentrated particulate matter can be harmful to human health?"
"Mr. Shimkus, you are very cavalier with the lives of rural America and agricultural America."
"I know what our intent was. I know what the courts have ruled, which is against the intent of Congress, for expedited siting."
"Now we have evolved, and this green movement, which I would argue would bring high-cost electricity in."
"I think that it is so unfair for people to portray this as obtrusive, big government. It is just nonsense."
"When I go home, my constituents are saying government is too big, it costs too much, get out of things that it really has no constitutional right to be delving in."
"My concern is an overabundance of caution at IRIS and an overabundance of caution at EPA with the policymakers could create job loss, economic dislocation, and movement of production overseas."
"Hon. John Shimkus, a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, opening statement."
"I am a market-based conservative capitalist, and whenever there is a lag in a commodity good or product, you have to really wonder about the demand and the supply and the available cost because when t..."