EPA has lost credibility as an agency capable of handling scientific reviews in an unbiased manner.

it could have just the opposite effect. Because as we lose our jobs... it could have an increased effect.

President Obama has a cap and trade agenda that's specifically designed to raise energy prices by forcing coal and oil out of the market.

The arguments against, I think, are very often not particularly well-founded.

The Clean Air Act is in dire need of modernization.

I feel that there is a lot coming out of EPA based on ideology and not objective, sound science.

President Obama has a cap and trade agenda that is specifically designed to raise the prices of energy by forcing coal and oil out of the market.

All of which has led to the EPA being apply nicknamed the 'Employment Prevention Agency.'

The Transport Rule will help reduce that. In doing so, it will serve our economy by avoiding the significant health costs.

Today, the Clean Air Act is being implemented in a way that bears no resemblance to what Congress intended.

I think sometimes there is this assumption that any expansion of limits or expansion of coverage under the program is directly counter to making the program fiscally sound.

Thank you for that policy change. That is enormously important.

the post-Katrina system is not working, and in my opinion, it is just the Corps trying to CYA.

I am certainly completely open to that path forward as long as there is a path forward.

the need for a full-blown longer-term reauthorization. This reauthorization or extension in tiny increments has really not served our communities and the economy well at all.

We need every bit of growth we can get. We need every closing in sight.

I have absolutely no confidence in the science coming out of the EPA.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I think it is in all of our interest to demand rigorous sound science in Federal agencies.

I have absolutely no faith that that is done in a sound science-based way, none.

It seems to me we could cut through a lot of this and similar debates if we had confidence in good, sound science that wasn't politicized.

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