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I've led a grand jury.
Agencies exist to administer the law.
Threats I have faced are unprecedented.
I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.
The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.
America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.
The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.
The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.
No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump.
Oklahomans care about the environment and the state in which we live.
Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.
There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.
As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship.
We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.
My kids are wonderfully talented individuals, and their world view is wonderful.
We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.
Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do.
We are blessed with great national resources, and we should be good stewards of those.
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.
We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.
Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.
Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.
If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.
EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.
The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.
I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.
Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.
Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate.
Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE.
What I've said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn't regulate through litigation.
I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate.
Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states.
The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.
There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.
It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.
There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.
Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.
The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100?
What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.
There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country.
I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.
When you hang around people who believe in you, it kind of uplifts your spirit a little bit. And you can see great things happen.
Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time.
We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the pipelines.
Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.
In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.
I believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama, and that's saying a lot.