Joe Barton

I don't understand what is self-incriminating about a yes or no answer as to whether the American people deserve to know what happened to over half a billion dollars of their money.

I thank the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky. I would like to start off, Mr. Chairman, by making the point that the TRAIN Act doesn't change any existing environmental law or existing environmental rule. It simply delays proposed…

I hope on a bipartisan basis we get to the bottom of this.

I want to ask Mr. Harrison if he thinks the American people who have invested over half a billion dollars deserve to know what happened to that money.

Again, Mr. Chairman, I am puzzled by the assertion of a right against self-incrimination, which the only obvious thing that changed is the occupant in the White House.

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.

the EPA has hurt jobs in Texas.

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

over-regulation by the EPA's 18,000-plus employees could damage the economy.

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

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

the President issued an edict from the White House saying he wants to roll back regulations.

We are basically saying let us take a timeout until the economy can regain its footing...

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I support Loan Guarantee Programs for alternative energy.

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