It would have devastating effect on the reliability, the reliability, the predictability.

The poetic justice part of it is I now chair the committee that has jurisdiction over the bureaucracy that tried to put me out of business for 20 years.

Instead of robust review and meaningful input from small businesses prior to issuing a regulation, the Obama-EPA has treated the RFA has a mere 'check-the-box' exercise.

I am very thankful that the courts have gotten involved in some of these.

Our Nation's best ideas and economic success stories stem from small businesses. Yet it is small businesses that are most vulnerable to Federal regulatory overreach.

Decades later, we are amidst a regulatory regime under the Obama administration that has grown too big and short-changed this process.

I consider Senator Markey one of my closest personal friends, and I have even back when we were serving in the House together.

If we had done a better job of passing the regulations to begin with it wouldn't be necessary for the courts to come in and intervene.

The affordability of water and wastewater infrastructure is a critical concern around the country.

As parents in Flint know, there is no safe level of lead in children.

I want to comment that I have dramatically shortened my presentation, as I was crossing off things from my list that have already been more eloquently expressed by my friend from Kansas, and I think it shows. He brought out a point I think…

first of all, I ask unanimous consent to be recognized as in morning business to use as much time as I shall consume. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.