$500 million of their taxpayer money was so callously wasted on loan guarantees that the administration and the people of Texas 22 knew were as risky as betting our future space exploration on three magic beans.

We need to address this right now, and this power plant can do--again, 2,500 megawatts is--with a shortfall we have of 1,320, this power plant in and of itself will provide.

It is important in Texas that we get this plant operating as soon as possible because ERCOT, our power regulator in our State, the grid manager, said that Texas will have a 2,500 megawatt shortfall by 2014.

if we shut down power plants like the CSAPR rule would have done, you know, people will die.

Congress never intended the Clean Air Act to be used to regulate greenhouse gases.

some folks back home don't understand how EPA can push such an anti-fossil fuel, anti-job, American job agenda.

EPA included Texas in the proposed rule 6 months before it was supposed to be implemented.

I represent Texas 22. Over 920,000 people depend on me up here in Congress to speak with their voices and get answers to their problems back home in Texas.

His agenda wasn't about any sort of clean water, clean air. It was an agenda about getting rid of American production of energy, specifically, fossil fuels--oil, gas, coal.

I am sure you agree on this, but in the event of a true emergency, DOE has the authority to compel power plants to operate to avoid a blackout under Section 202(c), even if that means violating an environmental permit issued by EPA.

Losing power in my State, the biggest threat, as opposed to something rolling on behind and fining Mirant for the things they did to keep the power up?