"I am pleased this administration has deployed objective metrics to better access deliverables."
"I have said it before, but I believe it bears repeating, we need to not only know how American tax dollars are being spent, but are Americans getting a better quality of life for the return on their i..."
"the excessive use of the small refinery waiver over the past three years has been incredibly harmful to Iowa farmers."
"I strongly encourage you folks to make sure that you accept that decision and that you will apply it nationally going forward."
"When the hospitals and mines are closing down, don't shut down our refinery."
"I think the people of Iowa, the people of the Midwest, these corn growers and soybean producers on a bipartisan basis are going to continue to press as hard as we can on this issue."
"As you are well aware, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently found that EPA had exceeded its statutory authority in issuing small refinery waivers to companies who had not received waivers in th..."
"Rural America is still hurting and here we have now the last refinery which creates jobs in West Virginia and if we don't get that exemption, I don't know that they have a long-term future."
"But the Fourth Circuit agreed with them. You all didn't agree with them. So I am just asking because I am running out time that you will rethink that again."
"If you don't have it, then maybe that is a role for Congress that we need to have this to get a sense, because the children are spending more time in their home than they are in our schools and our da..."
"I want to also thank you for your prompt response to my inquiries over the last few weeks about the Paden City water problem."