"I am concerned that the lapse in authorization may leave the agency vulnerable to funding cuts during the appropriations cycle."
"True innovation, job growth, and business opportunities should stem from the open and free market, and not from creation of more taxes and Government spending."
"The report very effectively highlights how Government-created green jobs can kill existing jobs."
"I must object."
"But what I am opposed to is increasing taxes. And cap and trade is, plain and simple, a tax."
"It's a tax that will fall more heavily on poorer people because poorer people spend a higher percentage of their incomes on energy than do wealthier people."
"It is an old concept that no one believes in Washington, but it is still there. It is called supply and demand."
"There are not the votes right now for cap-and-trade in the U.S. Senate. It is not even close."
"The problem is us. It is Washington saying what you can and cannot do out there."
"I have no doubt in my mind, Madam Chairman, that the House is going to pass the bill, and it will come over here and it will not pass here."
"Water issues are vitally important to my State of Oklahoma."