Sam Graves actually said...

"I am thrilled that this Administration listened to those farmers and small businesses about the extreme challenges this rule would have imposed."

"Watching some of these entirely irrelevant topics that States are using...to refuse to offer the consistency determination is fascinating to me."

"I would certainly love to work with you, and don't see any reason why that would be a partisan effort to get accuracy and clarity."

"Do you believe that the clarity or the specificity in the Obama-era definition was appropriate or do you think that it needed more clarification?"