In fact, a 2008 study from the Journal of Environmental Management... states that, 'Contrary to general public perception...'

EPA's most recent estimate of the total financial benefit of the Clean Air Act is $1.3 trillion.

We want our people to have good health. We want people to be able to have safe jobs.

I think the President is right. I think he hit the right balance.

the point is--and Congressman Kucinich made a long list of achievements that all of us, across the table, have achieved in terms of safety and in the environment.

I also know that regulations are creating jobs and the regulations are saving lives.

There is nobody--we want job-creating opportunities. We want you all to be successful.

I fully support having a discussion about the impact of regulations on industry, and I want to know if there are regulations that are unnecessarily burdensome on this country's manufacturers.

Today in the State of Ohio, the State of Wisconsin and the State of Indiana there are epic struggles underway where those who serve the public, who teach our children, who police our streets, who fight the fires and who perform a myriad of…

I would just like to say in response to my friends that my amendment will correct a bipartisan error and, second, that you can't destroy a missile system that doesn't work. I will just conclude by saying that Philip Coyle, a former…

My amendment would prohibit funds authorized in H.R. 1 to be used for the missile defense program at the Department of Defense. The amendment does not cut overall defense spending but merely places a limitation on spending on the hapless…

I believe the Patriot Act represents the cracked domestic crown jewel of a disastrous global war on terror which led us to attack Iraq based on lies, invade Afghanistan based on a misreading of history, indulge in occupations which having…

On this day when around the world we celebrate the transformative power of love, it is also appropriate for us to think about a world as one, that the world, in fact, is interdependent, interconnected; and if we can have this realization…

I think it is fair for us to debate this. I think we have to just be cautious about how far we draw conclusions about the motivations of each other in taking the positions that we do.

I would hope that my good friend from California, in his very passionate defense of the Patriot Act, did not mean to imply that the distinguished Mr. Conyers in some way would suborn terrorism, because he chooses to point out that the…

My Ensuring Worker Safety Act (H.R. 571) would allow federal OSHA more flexibility to collaborate with states and improve underperforming state plans, such as Hawaii's. I urge my colleagues to support it.

Beyond these measurable economic and safety benefits, what value do we place on reducing worker injury, illness, and death?

This is not the way to ensure worker safety.

I want to say that since Congress first passed the Patriot Act in 2001 that we have been continually challenged on this question of our constitutional duties to act as a coequal branch of government and that it is my belief that we have…

It is difficult to debate an issue of such importance and have very good friends who are taking an opposite position. But I think that, in this case, we have to look very squarely at the literal reading of the Constitution. The First and…

Any review of our regulatory structures or the orders that are issued therefrom must weigh the cost of regulations against their benefits. Everyone who makes or installs air bags in cars, smoke detectors in office buildings, HVAC units in…

The Patriot Act represents giving away rights, not securing them. It's said, well, it hasn't been adjudicated. The laws that we make derive from our constitutional authority, and that's not just a matter of political will but it's about…

I would like to get back to first principles here. The First Amendment, ``Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or…

When we look at section 206, which allows the FBI to obtain an order from FISA to wiretap a target without having to specify the target or device; when we look at section 6001, which authorizes the government to conduct investigations of…

I thank the gentleman. You need to look more carefully at the YouCut program. You know, the U.S. can't withdraw from the world, nor can we be the policemen of the world; but we can protect the people who work at the U.N. in New York. Is…