Today's hearing is important to understanding how EPA decides the who and the what, the where, the when, the why prior to issuing a regulation, because once it is final it may be too late.

At a time when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is advancing an unprecedented regulatory agenda on top of mounting court challenges, today's hearing on regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) is absolutely critical to assessing the…

I used to say it and it really surprised them, that Barbara Boxer and I are good friends.

if we are doing such a good job, why do we have to go into such a huge cost for the American people to come up with more regulations.

Where environment is concerned it's hard to know where domestic policy ends and where foreign policy begins.

I was very relieved when the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay on October 9, 2015, that prevented this rule from going into effect.

I wish to make some other comments because something very good happened, and it is not normally the case. We passed the Defense authorization bill. Here we are in the midst of over two decades of wars and we are being challenged on all…

we are a little more than a month away from the United Nations climate conference in Paris. The countries continue to roll out their international pledges to reduce carbon emissions in an attempt to control global warming. I can't believe…

Russia presents the greatest threat to our national security.

I believe he achieved what he wanted, and that is this government that was anti-Russian... has turned its head away.

I think that's very significant, and I would look for him to stop the lull and get back in.

there should be cuts in the budget commensurate with this lighter workload.