This confidential agenda mentions a private meeting with Murray Energy. It mentions a private meeting with Southern Company, and it mentions a private meeting with American Fuel Petrochemical Manufacturers, which represents a lot of these…

The problem that I have with some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is they talk a really big game about the debt and the deficit.

That is just, I think, an outrage from simple fairness.

I do not think I have actually ever seen a sincere effort at regulatory reform or relief.

But you haven't told us anything about that.

Oklahoma Strong PAC is your leadership pack?

the regulatory authority on Government ethics has not caught up with this post-Citizens United, dark money world.

I see nothing in your record that would give a mom taking her child to the hospital for an asthma attack any comfort that you would take the slightest interest in her.

the senior Senator from West Virginia has a very short time clock and has asked me to yield 2 minutes to him before I begin my remarks. I ask unanimous consent that that take place and that then I be recognized at the conclusion of his…

it makes this industry crazy to be in court and to have to tell the truth, so they will fight desperately on. The $700 billion a year in subsidies makes it profitable to ``lawyer up'' by the boatload for this fight and to litigate to their…

in my ``Time to Wake Up'' climate speech--this is No. 154--I sometimes feel as if I am out here banging hopelessly against a tightly locked, barred, and soundproofed door. I make them anyway because, at a minimum, I want history to know…

I ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of the majority whip's remarks, I be recognized. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Our cards are up on the table. It's Obamacare. You want to improve it? Make suggestions. We've always been open to that.

You'll be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You will be doing a lot of work to prepare this legislation...

I think that it's important--you know well that the reopening of the doughnut hole would be a legislative activity, not an administrative activity.

We throw this thing out at our peril if you care about saving Medicare, the savings to which are a very significant part of this $2.9 trillion.

Are you denying that those private meetings took place?

It's like being asked to jump out of an airplane with no parachute but being told, 'Trust us, we'll build the parachute before you hit the ground.'

I have been an Attorney General, too. I know the difference.

Did you solicit funding from them in your role at the Republican Attorney Generals Association?

Given how many of these groups have important financial interests before the EPA, do you not think that 3,000 e-mails back and forth between you and your office and them are relevant to potential conflict of interest as an administrator?

Did you raise money for the Rule of Law Defense Fund, front entities that will appear before EPA as potential defendants in subjects of regulation?

At this point, what I deduce from your statement is that if that set of hypothetical facts were true, if you had raised $1 million from a big energy corporation to go through the Rule of Law Defense Fund to support your efforts at RAGA…

All of those groups and many others have gone very clearly on record that climate change presents significant health issues.

I see nothing in your career to give those fishermen any confidence that you will care one bit for their well being, and not just the well being of the fossil fuel industry.