John Sarbanes: “A budget balance over the business cycle would have more rationality to it. It still does not address the capital budget…”

Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act.

It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.

They want to be on the field of their democracy. They want to feel like they have some power within their own democracy.

The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards.