Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first of all, I appreciate the fact that my colleagues from West Virginia, North Dakota, Kentucky, and Montana-- all of us are getting together on this in a bipartisan way. I think it is worth repeating, to make sure everyone understands where we are on this, what a CRA is. The CRA is the Congressional Review Act. It is an act that allows an elected person who is answerable to the public to weigh in on these decisions that are made by the President--who can't run again for office--and by the unelected bureaucrats who are destroying this country. As was pointed out by the Senator from Kentucky, I do chair the committee called the Environment and Public Works Committee. On this committee, we deal with these regulations. We have jurisdiction over the EPA. It is interesting I would say that because we tried to get the EPA to come in and testify as witnesses as to how the President plans to move to the percentage of power that is going to be generated by the year 2030 by renewables, and they won't testify because they don't have a plan. They don't know how they are going to do it. The CRA is significant because there are a lot of people in this case who would be the liberals in this body who like the idea of being overregulated, who like the idea of having the regulators run our lives, and they are the ones who would love to go home when people are complaining about the cost of all of these things and they can say: Well, wait a minute. Don't blame us.…”