"What's the EPA's plans? Are they going to take the local jurisdictions to court in order to force an increase in property taxes?"
"What took 2 years to implement a rule that milk spills on a dairy farm should not come under oil disaster response plans?"
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman."
"If there is no funding. If there is no Federal funding, that community has to come up with the dough?"
"I don't know what you have done to gain the ire of so many hardworking people in my district, but you have."
"They can't afford a 50 percent increase in their taxes from an unfunded mandate coming from a faceless bureaucrat."
"I look forward to a spirited hearing today, as it should be whenever we're talking about something as important as clean water."
"H.R. 1 actually will improve the job environment in the United States, not make it worse."
"As more and more of our nation's public policy decisions involve the use of complex scientific information, it becomes more and more important that our policymaking institutions make use of such infor..."
"Policies intended to mitigate climate change and conventional pollution with the use of corn-ethanol have backfired badly. Rather than reduce greenhouse gas emissions, poorly-thought out ethanol manda..."