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Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following video of his question and answer exchange at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that investigated  problems involving the management of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The witnesses at the hearing included EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy:

Below are highlights from the transcript:

Rep. Gosar: “Administrator McCarthy, in August 2011, President Obama acknowledged in a letter to Speaker Boehner that seven new proposed regulations would each cost the economy at least a billion dollars annually. In fact, four of these regulations were put forth by the EPA. I repeat, four. How many new regulations has the EPA proposed this year that will cost our economy at least a billion dollars annually?”

Administrator McCarthy: "I don’t have that figure sir."

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Rep. Gosar: “As you know, Congress has repeatedly rejected previous cap-and-tax energy plans proposed by the President and his big-government allies. Knowing he can’t lawfully enact a carbon-dioxide tax plan, he has instructed you to circumvent Congress and impose these new regulations by fiat. Do you believe the EPA should follow the intent of Congress when implementing new regulations?"

Administrator McCarthy: “I believe that EPA is actually following the law that Congress enacted in a way that we are suppose to implement and I think that has been confirmed by the Supreme Court every time its been asked of them relative to Carbon pollution.”

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Rep. Gosar: “I'm glad you brought that up... If so will you return the new Waters of the US proposed rule to your agencies in order to address “legal, scientific and economic deficiencies of that proposal?"

Administrator McCarthy: “...It is out for public comment and it was specifically put out in order to address the concerns raised by the Supreme Court in terms of jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act.”

Rep. Gosar: "Once again it has been identified legally with economic deficiencies, scientific deficiencies, yes it has, there is four supreme court rulings, you just acknowledged the gentleman from Virginia that the Supreme Court had the rule of the land..."

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Rep. Gosar: "...Furthermore, Dr. David Sunding founding director of the Berkeley Water Center and Professor in the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, found major flaws in your agency’s economic analysis of the Water of the US proposed rule, and claimed the “errors in the study are so extensive as to render it unusable for determining the true cost of the proposed rule.” Does you agency have any plans to correct this flawed economic analysis? When you put stuff out you have to seed proper information to the public and you are not.” 

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