"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..."
"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?"
"There is not one letter on the record where TCEQ has had a flexible permit rejected."
"So, there's not any of you that's here to say 'Let's just do what's good for Texas and don't worry about the laws of the United States?'"
"I have yet to find one that substantiates what you said in your testimony, that the Texas Flexible Permitting program is not transparent, it's not enforceable, it doesn't comply with the Clean Air Act..."
"Because of the lawsuit that the State of Texas has against your agency, you filed an affidavit in Federal court on October the 28th of 2010..."
"Madam Administrator, am I correct in that the disagreement between Texas and EPA on greenhouse gases is a separate issue than the disagreement between Texas and EPA on their flexible permitting progra..."
"I mean, I just--I can't stress enough, Mr. Chairman, it is important that we have an environmental program Nationally and at the State level that every citizen has confidence in that's going to give u..."
"I think they're people of good conscious, and they want to enforce law--both the State and the Federal law."