The Obama administration upended the consensus based model for setting environmental regulations.

Cooperative federalism is a core principle of environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, where EPA and the States work together to meet environmental goals.

The National Defense Strategy provides clear focus on the great power competition with China and Russia.

Our States should be seen as a partner. I think that is what is going on that is different now than it was during the last Administration.

The assumptions that U.S. forces will have uncontested access to airspace and sea lanes is becoming less and less likely.

It is kind of rewarding actually, as during the last Administration, when we had a partnership program take place with Fish and Wildlife, they found the States actually were doing a better job.

In Texas, you know more about that, you have more of them. In Oklahoma, we have tornadoes, not hurricanes, but it is the same thing. We have experienced it and know how to react to them. I think that needs to be talked about.

I understand some people think what our Administrator has been doing is a step backward, but they are the ones who think somehow the Federal Government or other States should be dictating what we do in our State.

But we are. For a number of years--this is the same thing you always get, those who are the more liberal individuals think that someone else can set an example in the case of the Federal Government, that somehow they know how to do things…

The data simply could not be tortured enough to make its implementation by the States legal, or importantly, feasible.

this is going to be kind of a strange statement to make. I have great regret that I am going to have to vote for this bill when it comes up--and I am talking about the spending bill--and I don't like it. I went through a lot of years as…

Is not one of the fastest ways to get cleaner and safer vehicles on the road to encourage manufacturers to make more affordable vehicles that consumers want to buy?