"Do the general permits improve the environment? Not at all."
"And even EPA and the majority of Congress have voiced their opposition to the permits."
"States do not need the added expense."
"Agriculture does not need the added burden."
"The money has got to come from somewhere unless we are going to add to the deficit."
"I want to thank my friend the chairman from Illinois for arranging this hearing."
"We are broke. The United States is broke. We spend more money than we take in."
"We have got almost a $15 trillion national debt hanging over our heads, $1.3 trillion this year alone."
"If they can't, we know that sequestration of funds was built into the bill, which means automatic cuts, $600 billion in cuts from defense."
"I can guarantee you for the hardworking, taxpaying folks back in my district, that is a lot of money, more money than most see in an entire lifetime of work."
"We are spending far more money than we take in, which means that any additional expenditures that are made--and this is an additional expenditure that is being proposed here, correct?"