I genuinely believe that one of the major problems facing Congress today is our budgetary and appropriations process.

It would give appropriators and authorizers more time for oversight.

The national debt, which has skyrocketed over the past few years, reaching almost $14.2 trillion today.

And as a result of that, in my view, we end up exacerbating a lot of problems with authorizing legislation.

While the White House says we are on the road to economic recovery, working families in my District... are still struggling.

They do not enforce it?

But is there a specific----

Texas in this--on this regard has really been a leader in the Nation in meeting EPA standards.

Ma'am, could you tell me the specific legal authority under the Clean Air Act that gives you the authority to say that the flexible permit is illegal?

we cannot stand to simply sit by and we are going to reassert ourselves.

If that's true, why did it take the EPA 16 years to take some action?

Well, would you do that for me, just to----