Ed Whitfield: “The hearing will come to order. I will recognize myself for a 5-minute opening statement.”

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

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.

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

27 States filed a lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan, and the Supreme Court issued a stay.