"There is no debate about this: cap-and-trade will make gasoline more expensive for American consumers."
"Costs matter. We should be looking for the cheap, easy way to do this, not for the hard, expensive way to do it."
"We cannot lessen our dependence on foreign oil through taxes, mandates and bureaucracy."
"Here's what I actually said, and what I predicted, 4 years ago:"
"CAIR is significantly more vulnerable to court challenges than Clear Skies would have been and will undoubtedly be held up, not unlike the Clinton administration's 1997 air quality standards."
"we have a colossal mess on our hands, created in large part by litigation."
"I just really want to be able to say, to my people in Oklahoma, how far this thing really could go."
"Do think that sometimes, sometimes, not always, but sometimes, that Washington knows more about, and should be involved in, land use in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, than people who live in Tulsa?"
"This lack of responsiveness is a real impediment to us in fulfilling our constitutional duties over oversight."
"We are all familiar with this. We remember the background, where it started, we are familiar with the two court decisions..."
"I demanded an investigation of the suppression of the March 9, 2009, direct report on the endangerment of finding for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act."