However, it does require you looking at both sides of the ledger and to have public health benefits actually count for something.

I would like to join Chairman Capito in thanking our witnesses for being here today to discuss four bills that my Republican colleagues argue will aid specific industries stifled by burdensome, costly regulations.

For what it is worth, I have information that the EPA has estimated the benefits of this requirement for new residential wood heaters at $3.4 billion to $7.6 billion annually.

These bills seek to delay and defang environmental standards pushing compliance dates for regulations or stripping authority from the Clean Air Act.

The testimony from Senator Burr was intended to focus on vehicles; to quote him, 'used exclusively for racing and used only on the race track.'

today I pay tribute to a great Rhode Islander, LTC Michael Manning of the Rhode Island National Guard. My office, along with the rest of the Rhode Island congressional delegation, has worked closely with Lieutenant Colonel Manning for…

it has been a sorry spectacle for Americans to witness what the polluting industries are doing, with the full connivance of the Trump administration, to the Environmental Protection Agency--an Agency that enjoys broad popularity among the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

There is another voice from Texas that has a rather different view of Ms. Hartnett White.

I think it is something of a significant situation if the CEO of a regulated industry is saying he has given his regulator a 3-page plan.

Mr. Wheeler, there has been a recent request by Secretary Perry to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to provide certain regulatory favors, to provide regulatory priority to, among other things, coal plants.

Was your participation in the preparation for the Perry request, if we call it that, is that a fair enough description?

our EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has a little problem. You see, the Supreme Court has ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act. Therefore, under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency, which…

the Janus decision coming up in the U.S. Supreme Court, which Senator Brown has just spoken about, is one that merits the attention of people who are concerned about the country and the Court. I wish to make two points in my remarks. The…

I come to the floor today for the 184th time to ask us to at least wake up to our duty as a Congress to enact prudent policies to address the effects of climate change. The Presiding Officer is well aware of what Alaska faces from ocean…

it is nice to see the distinguished Senator in the chair presiding. I am not sure, in my 183 ``Time to Wake Up'' speeches, I have yet had the pleasure of speaking while the Senator was presiding. I am here to once again call for us to wake…

It is a very different thing to be allowed to speak after a vote has been taken than to have the opportunity to try to convince your colleagues before the vote is taken.

As I understand from the Senator's response to my last question, if you force the victims of low-dollar but multi-victim fraud to have arbitration as their only remedy, you are way less likely to get consumers asserting their rights, and…

I was just going to ask whether my colleague would yield for a question. My distinguished colleague from Connecticut is an extraordinarily experienced and able lawyer. He was U.S. attorney in Connecticut; for a long time, he was his…

I would like to say a few words about the battle between the jury system and a system in which regular Americans are forced into arbitration, which has a terrible record. I can remember years ago, when I was attorney general, the attorneys…

In conclusion, is it fair to say that the measure we are about to vote on will indisputably have the effect of shifting enormous power from consumers to corporations that engage in high-volume but low- dollar fraud?

I am pleased to urge all of my colleagues to give a strong bipartisan voice vote in support of the amendment by the Senator from Georgia. The current budget process does not produce a meaningful budget, does not control the debt or the…

let me echo the remarks of the senior Senator from Ohio. Like Ohio, Rhode Island has a very significant opioid problem, and we came together in this Chamber to support the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. I had the privilege of…

Let me ask the panel to focus on a very specific issue, which is the question of monopoly.

Extracting monopoly rents isn't viewed by any economist as being legitimate economic behavior, is it?