Mike Pompeo

He spent 4 minutes and 31 seconds testifying.

I understand that Mr. Waxman doesn't like this pipeline.

It wasn't designed to cover losses; it was designed to cover interest rates and subsidies.

The $10 billion that was appropriated was for the entire portfolio of loans, correct?

I would use 'reckless' and 'grossly mismanaged' as a program.

The public has the right to know, you know, whether or not this regulation, this new rulemaking, what the impact is going to be on American jobs.

This doesn't eliminate any regulation. This just gives the States the ability to do it.

So I think it was Mr. Waxman and you had a little colloquy about all the horrors that could follow.

It is intended to stop the EPA from regulating farm dust, and I yield back the balance of my time.

The issue we are talking about today, the effort to regulate farm dust as a particulate pollutant, is one of the most concerning and potentially most burdensome regulations coming from Washington, D.C., in my 10 months here so far.

Don't you think that is at least in part because they are afraid of you?

I hope this one will reconsider that.

I am mystified that the Federal Government believes that it can identify a problem, childhood obesity.

That expertise is very apparent in a half a billion dollars being lost by the American taxpayer.

Do you think these emails, they were just wrong, they were making this stuff, they weren't hurried?

I have heard not a single person stand up and take any accountability for a single dollar of taxpayer money that is gone.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kansas will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Office of…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I will be very brief. I certainly care deeply about clean air, so do all the businesses in Kansas, so do all the agriculture people. We want clean water, but we know how to do it and we're doing it. You…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 65, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $6,246,000)''. Page 158, line 25, after the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 23, line 4, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $45,641,000)''. Page 62, line 2, after the dollar amount…

If we would lower marginal income tax rates, lower corporate tax rates and shrink the size of the EPA and the Department of Energy, we would get cheaper, better fuels much more quickly.

I have more faith in the American people and innovators than I do in Government bureaucrats.

I think it is a fool's errand. And I think 50 years of energy subsidy history demonstrates that quite clearly.

I hope natural gas makes it. I hope it does it in its own way with the money from the industry.

I cannot understand for the life of me why we are here talking about all these subsidies.