You may be familiar that members of the Texas delegation on a bipartisan basis on this committee met with Mr. Sunstein of Office of Management and Budget right before the August recess concerning the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule and the…

Did we just ignore FERC's recommendations? Because they don't seem to be completely coincident with the decisions that you made.

So much has been said on the other side that I need to refute and yet there are some things that I need to get out here.

I would further ask the question, I am sure you made the President aware of this, does the President not care about the health of Americans by delaying the Ozone Rule?

Putting an industry with a critical infrastructure in the position of choosing which agency's rules to violate is bad public policy.

I would argue that that is going to have a significant impact on public health.

Although you work for the Executive Branch, Congress is a coequal branch of government.

would not provide one scintilla of improvement in the air we breathe.

It seems that if the White House is serious about regulatory reform, this is something where all parties should be anxious to work together.

It troubles me that it occurred the way it did. It was seemingly something that was under the radar screen.

I think no one now believes those figures that were originally delivered to us by the CBO and even the Chief Actuary for CMS has said the cost is going to be some $450 billion over 10 years higher than what was advertised in March of 2010.

the phrase I have heard associated with that is something magic happens when people spend their own money for health care, even if it wasn't their own money in the first place.