"If we are going to bring down this $1.5 trillion worth of deficit spending that we have every year, we have got to find ways of making those type of savings as represented by SpaceX."
"I believe the President's priorities are misplaced."
"the average American looking at it is kind of subsidizing this foreign entity"
"As a matter of principle, regulatory benefits should justify their costs, and EPA's pursuit of this coal-killing regulation, despite its own admission that the rule has negligible benefits is mind bog..."
"I would be greatly disappointed if Administrator Sunstein refused to testify before this Subcommittee, especially in light of the fact that his predecessors have testified before the Science Committee..."
"This Committee certainly should inquire into the cost-benefit analysis of environmental regulations."
"Should we really value the lives of older Americans less than younger Americans, as at least one of our witnesses apparently favors?"
"The Bush Administration recognized that and dropped the idea of a 'senior death discount' in economic cost-benefit analysis."
"But putting a dollar value on lives, and valuing some lives more than others, raises profound moral questions."
"They might decide that Congress is really just more interested in pleasing special interests than in protecting the health of our mothers and fathers."
"Instead, this hearing is one more forum for specific big industries to air their grievances about the EPA."
"As far as you know, does the EPA--did they change the requirements for Dallas and Houston based on this scientific data?"