I've been encouraged that NOAA is moving forward with the commercial weather data pilot as outlined in the bipartisan House-passed weather bill, H.R. 1561. I'm very pleased with that.

I was encouraged by NOAA's budget request this year for commercial weather, which includes funding to continue the Commercial Weather Data Pilot program authorized by our House-passed weather bill.

The rule violates the Constitution. Cooperative federalism programs must provide States with the meaningful opportunity to decline implementation, but the rule does not do so.

This is unacceptable. EPA regulations should always respect the sovereignty of the States, especially since it is the citizens in each State who bear the brunt of the EPA's rules.

Let us be clear. This was a treaty, and the President did not submit it for ratification.

The U.S. energy landscape is made up of the makers and the takers.

This is a war on the poor and will increase economic inequality across the nation.

The Clean Power Plan has serious legal deficiencies.

This Clean Power Plan is not the pursuit of clean.

President Obama has ignored Congress and the will of the people.

The Clean Power Plan will cause double-digit electricity price increases in over half of our States.

I believe science and technology confirms that the climate is changing. I'm not in denial.

This is outrageous, it is wrong, and I find these actions by EPA unacceptable.

The President's Power Plan is nothing more than a power grab.

This hearing comes at a very critical time.

The so-called Clean Power Plan is a bad deal for the American economy, and would produce no substantive environmental benefits.

The Administration's alarmism is not good science and intentionally misleads the American people.

The President's signed Paris pledge will increase electricity costs, ration energy, and slow economic growth.

The Clean Power Plan has been falsely sold as impactful environmental regulation when it's really an attempt by our primary federal environmental regulator to take over federal and state regulation of energy.

If that were so, how do you explain the unprecedented step that the Chairman mentioned that the United States Supreme Court took recently to issue a stay in this proceeding?

As you're aware, Attorney General, there are a lot of businesses that are looking for places to locate, and when they believe that the state of Oklahoma is going to have their electricity prices increased by 20 percent, manufacturers start…

If the EPA gets its way, section 111(d) will be transformed from a limited provision into the most powerful part of the Clean Air Act.

I am troubled that the minority has chosen to mischaracterize the Committee's investigation...

I would also argue that in my state of Oklahoma we have a lot of really great folks that work in the energy industry...

EPA's plan will not significantly impact global emissions.