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“We know humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends. So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100, in the year 2018?”
“Oklahomans care about the environment and the state in which we live.”
“The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.”
“I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.”
“'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making.”
“EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.”
“Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.”
“Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.”
“There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.”
“I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.”
“Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.”
“No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump.”
“Agencies exist to administer the law.”
“I might not like a statute... but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It's stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way.”
“My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.”
“There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.”
“My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.”
“Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.”
“The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.”
“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.”