"This is very much an ongoing investigation."
"This is very much an ongoing investigation. And, you know, for somebody who's been doing it for as long as I have, I'm hoping that everybody sort of wakes up and recognizes that these are chronic and ..."
"Texas cannot support the EPA's efforts to regulate greenhouse gases and federalize the Texas air permitting system."
"The EPA has ignored the plain language of the Clean Air Act, violated notice and comment requirements."
"The Clean Air Act defines in precise numerical terms the emission thresholds that trigger permitting requirements."
"The Tailoring Rule purports to create new thresholds for greenhouse gases in place of the thresholds that were mandated by Congress, itself."
"The EPA effectively rewrote the Clean Air Act by unilaterally raising emission thresholds."
"EPA's failure to give States 3 full years violates the Clean Air Act."
"The FIP rule was issued without notice and comment in violation of the APA."
"What is absurd is that a regulatory agency can come in and have unelected bureaucrats rewrite a law that the United States Congress wrote."
"That's correct, sir."
"The reason why I point that out is because it was done right before the Christmas/New Year's holiday."