Ed Whitfield: “I would like to yield 4 minutes to the primary sponsor of the legislation, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Griffith), a…”

I want clean air. I want clean water. But I don't want an organized attack on the energy-producing sector of America because of, to use Mr. McNerney's term, a political decision to go after hydrocarbons.

Congress did not write the Clean Air Act to provide EPA with the ability to create new regulatory powers and authorities so it can transform the Nation's energy system.

The Clean Power Plan was like picking up the Constitution and tearing it up.

Why do you think the Supreme Court issued a stay of the Clean Power Plan?