Texas would end up with a new source performance standard that is below EPA's own standard.

Well, just as an example, are you aware of the fact that if Texas closed down every existing fossil fuel generation plant in the State, every one, every coal-fired plant, every natural gas plant in the State of Texas, that it would still…

The audacity of this proposal is so breathtaking that--in and of itself, it is a health hazard because it literally takes my breath away.

My understanding that what you are attempting to propose is directed by a Presidential speech dated June 25, 2013.

I think it is allowed, but I don't see any statutory authority that demands these proposals.

I mean, you know, the renewable standard for Texas is based on the energy renewable portfolio standard for Kansas.

Our opportunity or responsibility on the committee is to provide for the general welfare, and in doing that, get the facts on the table so that people can have faith that the products that your company produces are safe.

I think you are asking a false question. The Internet is open.

let us don't throw the baby out with the bath water, because we still want to--if we are going to get a revision, it needs to be something that will work in the real world.

I have some unease that maybe they are going too far to the left, quite frankly.

Mr. Speaker, we are here to honor a Texas legend in his own time, the Honorable Kent Hance of Dimmitt, Texas, some of us Aggies would put an ``a'' instead of an ``i.'' But Kent was born in west Texas and he, as has already been pointed…