"The Administration promised immediate results, immediate, but that has not turned out to be as the Administration expected."
"The program crafted by Obama and the Democratic Congress wasn't engineered to maximize its economic impact."
"the Waxman-Markey bill will really change our way of life, you said in terms of at home in Arkansas, in regards to your community in lost jobs and higher energy prices."
"I think in your testimony you said not only would this bill destroy our economy, our communities, our way of life, but it is also going to make us pay more, pay more, due to it."
"this is, in our opinion, bad legislation."
"I am very concerned about preserving and creating jobs in America and especially in my own State of Wyoming."
"I have been saying we want to make energy as clean as we can as fast as we can without raising the costs to American families."
"Do you think this bill can be perfected to the point where energy and input costs would be beneficial to farmers and ranchers? Or do you think that there is no way to do that?"
"I mean, I worry about western ranchers whose operations are heavily dependent on the use of Federal lands."
"Well, since the passage of that bill, unemployment has reached 9.5 percent."
"The Administration says the Waxman-Markey bill will create millions of new jobs."