Joe Barton actually said...

"does Washington have the power to seize these States' permitting authority?"

"this isn't a choice between clear air and jobs. Texas is achieving both."

"In that--that's a sworn affidavit and in that affidavit, at the end of the affidavit, she says that not only with regard to Texas, but I think with regard to any State, the EPA is not going to--to use..."

"the official legal representative of the State of Texas representing the Texas Council on Environmental Quality is that the EPA is violating the law because they're clearly ignoring the plain statutor..."