"Instead, we need to explore policy options that promote growth and enable our job creators, communities, and especially our families to prosper."
"I'm very concerned about the regulatory authority that we may see coming because of this proposed rule."
"We have a proposed rule that's going to infringe on the state's authority to protect and manage our water resources."
"I think it's also important that we base public policy that will affect the citizens of our State and the citizens of this country on fact and based on science."
"This proposal is a massive expansion of Federal jurisdiction beyond congressional intent."
"This rule effectively resurrects that concept where if a migratory bird, such as the Sandhill crane, stops at a pond or pothole along the way for a visit, that pond or pothole becomes jurisdictional."
"I have serious concerns about the process that EPA and the Corps used to draft this rule, and its disregard for states, small businesses, and local authorities."
"In Nebraska, we rely on our public power. It is a strength for our State."
"It will hit every family in Wisconsin and across this Country."
"To have a requirement, a mandate to have those implemented, I think in an unreasonably short period of time, will affect families."
"Eliminating part of the rule--a rule that simply requires truck drivers to stop for some rest once in a while--is a direct threat to public safety and could endanger motorists on America's highways."