Do you think that the laws that are in the books right now adequately handle this situation?

Sue and settle, we all know what that is, we know that groups, maybe some of the environmentalist extremist groups will file lawsuits against the EPA.

Would you commit to sitting down with the Transportation Secretary, Elaine Chao?

Attorney General Pruitt, as Administrator, will you look into this matter to see whether this extreme action was appropriate or a hasty political decision?

It is my belief that Attorney General Pruitt will return the Environmental Protection Agency to its proper role as a steward of the environment, acting within the bounds prescribed by Congress and the Constitution.

Over the last 8 years the Obama administration has advanced a radical environmental agenda, has exhibited a deep distrust of State governments and private landowners.

The closed-mindedness of these supposed men of science is surprising even to me.

ClimateGate was a fraud on a scale I have never seen before.

I ask at this point in the record that we reprint the Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that was written by two outstanding scientists called 'The Myth of the Climate Change Ninety-Seven Percent.'

I am looking forward to working in a very senior position on your Committee. This is the Committee that gets things done, as Scott Pruitt is fully aware.

It's the worse scientific scandal of our generation.

I remember when Bill Clinton was first President of the United States, he was looking for some money to rob out of some of their accounts, and he took $16 billion out of the Highway Trust Fund.