John Sarbanes: “The number of people in this country who earn over $200,000 a year is less than 1 percent of all taxpayers, is it not?”

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

each of which--each of which--would hamper EPA's ability to regulate air pollution and, unfortunately, continues this Republican agenda of putting Big Oil interests over the interests of the public.

This is an important function that our committee plays. We take it seriously.

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.