"How in the world can you meet that standard with a qualitative assessment rather than a quantitative assessment?"
"But your rulemaking, but the backfit rule requires that you do determine cost-benefit analysis."
"We disagree strongly."
"The industry doesn't see it the way that you just described it."
"Here they are again under stress. I mean, there are only about 7,000 jobs in America attributed to the brick industry."
"But would the EPA consider reproposing this rule, given the concerns that have been raised about the likely unworkability of the proposal?"
"They spent hundreds of millions of dollars to comply with the 2003 rule, only to have it set aside by the courts in 2007."
"Unless we want to start making buildings and homes out of sticks and straw, we had better figure this out because these companies cannot continue to stand up under this duress."
"So, has your Department, your agency, done a specific analysis of this latest proposal on the reliability of the electricity grid and, if not, why not?"
"Since 2011 you have been operating under sequestration and each one of you have talked about how this has eroded your ability to ensure the continued superiority of the United States military."
"There can be no greater honor for me as a Congressman than to serve on the House Armed Services Committee."