"And in fact, I would submit--and I want to know if you agree--that in some ways, by having rules that don't make sense we actually might increase the mercury being deposited from foreign sources in Ne..."
"My understanding is is that the Obama administration EPA, which was very aggressive on a lot of these issues--a lot of these issues never tried to take the New Source Review rule and implant that into..."
"So, basically, if you're more efficient, that's bad from the viewpoint of those that don't want to----"
"And whether we are dealing with manufacturing or we are dealing with electric generation or refining, we actually want those people to be more reliable, don't we?"
"Kind of makes it hard for folks to comply when you have got all these overlapping and sometimes confusing regulations, isn't it?"
"And my colleague says, why would they do that? And, of course, maybe they would; maybe they wouldn't. I don't know."
"I think about 80 to 85 percent of what the previous administration wanted to accomplish could have been accomplished if they hadn't done sloppy legal work."
"I have a bill and it's been so frustrating that Senator Tim Kaine and I--we don't generally agree on a lot of things--we both have bills in."
"I was on the committee in 2005, and I want to thank our former chairman, Joe Barton, who was here a minute ago."
"But the RFS I considered was a failure, because here we are 13 years later."
"I would like to reform the RFS, but I am not so sure this is the way it needs to be reformed."
"I share the privacy concerns that you have heard from a lot of us."