Is it fair to say whatever the committee wishes, if it is a committee invitation?

This avalanche of regulatory actions will begin in 2014, and I believe will further frustrate our already struggling economy.

there is no observation, there is no historical record of increasing hurricane or tornado activity, both in terms of frequency and in terms of strength.

It is long overdue, quite frankly.

Future generations are going to look back to this moment and judge each of us, each of us, by whether we start to act on this issue.

Last week the press reported that Russia had used cyber-attacks against Ukrainian telecommunications, to hamper Ukrainian leadership's ability to access that.

I would underscore and encourage that with regard to CYBERCOM in particular.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore…

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obviously I will be brief. I was simply trying to engage the majority leader in a simple question. I will lay out the question here. I think it deserves an answer, not for me but for the American people. Last week I had written the…

In addition to these concerns, the agency is in perpetual overdrive executing the President's extreme climate agenda by administrative fiat.

I had understood we would have a second round.

Did you object to the Office of Surface Mining Stream Buffer Zone Rule which would cause up to 7,000 job losses and have a negative impact in 22 States?

It strikes me as those two things are at odds but I will come back to some other concerns.

I really share a lot of the concerns about sound science that we have talked about.

I am particularly concerned about getting the agencies involved in the climate agenda, getting them to testify directly about their administrative actions.

the single greatest threat to the ecological integrity of the west

the pace and magnitude of this development is easily the single greatest threat to the ecological integrity of the west

We think a particularly important example of how science can be used or abused is the ongoing debate about fracking.

I really believe, as do my colleagues on this side, that scope should warrant a more thorough Committee review than this pretty rush one at the end of the year.

I do not think we have been nearly aggressive enough in fulfilling that responsibility.

The EPA, as the Chairman mentioned, is wrought with mismanagement and lack of appropriate responsibility to account for taxpayer dollars.

Did you object in any way to the recent decision by Fish and Wildlife to move forward with 30-year permits that allow for wind farms to kill a significant number of bald eagles?

My point is he was making statements in a broad context and that was certainly not a criticism from the Left.

The World Bank says that corn-based ethanol in the U.S. is driving up grain prices by up to 8 percent worldwide.