Markwayne Mullin actually said...

"Well, it would sure help the taxpayers knowing that $45 billion isn't going out the door when we can identify that it is 12.2 percent and yet we can't stop it."

"So if I was you I would wake up every morning."

"If there is already uncertainty in it and we are trying to improve the uncertainty, but yet, we are OK with the way that it is, we move nowhere; there is no change."

"But it is so broad right now that people are left to wonder what it is; whereas, it is only within the agency's hands to determine to clarify."