I rise in opposition to my good friend, Mr. Markey's, amendment. He must think EPA stands for ``Energy Punishment Agency'' as opposed to ``Environmental Protection Agency.'' EPA's role is not to regulate the oil and gas industry. It's not…

As we have seen in my home State of Texas, medical malpractice reform can work.

Mr. Speaker, my dear sweet sister-in-law, Carol Anne Beaver, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, March 26, 2011. She passed away in her home near Lockhart, Texas, following a long and valiant battle with cancer. She is the first of four…

Mr. Commissioner, under the--under the--if greenhouse gas regulations were to be implemented and you did not have a Tailoring Rule, how much of Texas agriculture would be subject to the Clean Air Act?

Well, we just have a disconnect here because I'm, personally, familiar with several of the plants, again, in my congressional district that have continuous monitoring for SO2 and NOx and ozone.

I don't see any irreconcilable issues here.

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 statutory language of the Clean Air Act.

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 a slang term--FIP a State program.

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

I think they're people of good conscious, and they want to enforce law--both the State and the Federal law.

These regulations, members, are proven in their cost but they are questionable in their benefit.