Bill Johnson actually said...

"This is an atrocity. And again, I encourage my colleagues to support our legislation."

"We don't want them to rewrite the rule. The industry doesn't want them to rewrite the rule."

"I am insulted by it. The people in Appalachia that harvest coal and depend on coal for their livelihoods, they are insulted by it."

"With this legislation, we will save taxpayers untold more millions of dollars and save thousands of direct and indirect jobs."