Joe Barton

Is there any evidence, monitored data evidence, of any criteria pollutant under the Clean Air Act that is increasing in density...

In my home State of Texas just last week, one company, one company announced the closure of two lignite coalmine...

Could you provide logs of those meetings, emails and telephone conversations to actually document the regional administrator's assertion?

There is a difference between voting to actually change or reduce an existing standard and voting to delay or slow down our at least review a proposed standard.

I have given you respectful requests almost every time you have appeared before the subcommittee or the full committee.

Is it the goal of the EPA to get to zero emissions, i.e., basically shut down the U.S. economy?

Do you consider an industry that is in compliance with EPA regulation to be a polluter?

We have a President who says that we need to create jobs, not destroy jobs.

We want the EPA and the administration to comply with its own principles as outlined in the President's Executive Order on regulation.

There are many things that are ailing our country right now, Madam Administrator, and it seems that your agency appears to be at ground zero of a fair number of them.

The fact remains that unemployment stands at over 9 percent and doesn't appear to be budging.

Insurance companies have prospered since the Affordable Care Act passed.

The President came out of that meeting and said we saved $2 trillion for health care.

Is it because the Affordable Care Act and the effect that its regulations are having on our Nation's employers?

I support Loan Guarantee Programs for alternative energy.

We know the one thing changed is that the President changed.

I see both sides of it, so I appreciate the information.

I would say of all the agencies we deal with, the FERC staff is probably the least politically motivated or impacted.

But because of all the things that we have done over the past 40 years, the number of birth defects because of mercury is, I would think, significantly down.

I want to stipulate that I think you and Mrs. Jackson are people of good character and integrity.

The EPA has issued a plethora of regulations, whether intended or not, that have the actual effect of reducing jobs

One of the rules that we are looking at is cement. I have got three cements plants in my Congressional district.

Oh, you do know the answer. The answer is no.

Is there any community you went through that you didn't see a plant that had been shut down?

These bills are necessary.