"I hope will intensify your---- and telescope the timeframe that it will take for you to present a final plan to protect against a catastrophic event occurring because we know al-Qaeda is out there."
"the money that is used for land acquisitions through the Land and Water Conservation Fund comes from funds paid to the United States by oil companies"
"While my colleagues on the Republican side may not have liked all that was in that legislation, it is my hope that now the Commission has made many of the same recommendations, that we can work togeth..."
"The EPA recently announced that it would only issue its proposal to regulate global warming pollution from refineries and power plants after meeting with business leaders and other stakeholders to sol..."
"EPA has also issued a rule that ensures that millions of smaller sources of global warming pollution are exempted from a requirement to obtain Clean Air Act permits."
"Installing pollution control technologies on power plants could also lead to increases in the efficiency of the facilities and significant cost savings for companies."
"But obviously that is not necessarily the case. For example, we have heard a lot about how EPA's efforts to regulate global warming pollution will lead to an economic catastrophe but this is just not ..."
"I think the larger point is true, that our lives are longer and safer and better because of a regulatory scheme that began to be put in place in 1900."
"So we all know what the reality of this hearing is. The Republicans hope that they can use the Regulatory Flexibility Act to turn the United States into a health, environment, safety, and consumer pro..."
"Historically speaking, have industries typically overestimated the costs of new regulations?"
"So this Groundhog Day recitation of how regulations will destroy the economy and jobs has already been shown to be flat-out wrong."