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Ed Whitfield
@edwhitfield· Republican · KY· Apr 1, 2014

No private company is going to build one of those plants without money.

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Ed Whitfield
@edwhitfield· Republican · KY· Apr 1, 2014

Just one rule impacting coal-fired power plants, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, has been estimated by the agency to cost $9.6 billion annually.

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Ed Whitfield
@edwhitfield· Republican · KY· Apr 1, 2014

EPA's climate agenda is all economic pain for no environmental gain.

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Ed Whitfield
@edwhitfield· Republican · KY· Apr 1, 2014

Congress has acted in the areas that the President is concerned about.

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Ed Whitfield
@edwhitfield· Republican · KY· Apr 1, 2014

EPA is clearly moving in the opposite direction, piling many new major rules on top of all the existing ones.

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Ed Whitfield
@edwhitfield· Republican · KY· Apr 1, 2014

President Obama's extensive use of executive orders, executive actions, and unilateral regulatory action threatens to enable President Obama to become a government unto himself.

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Jeb Hensarling
@jebhensarling· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

There is a reason, perhaps, that the CFPB is historically the least accountable, most powerful, Federal agency we have seen.

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Jeb Hensarling
@jebhensarling· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

And to think, again, that in 2014 we are hearing evidence of Government-sanctioned discrimination is beyond the pale.

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Jeb Hensarling
@jebhensarling· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

I have been moved by what I have heard. And, again, let me add my voice to the voices you have heard congratulating both of you ladies for the courage that you exhibit and for coming forward today.

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John Mica
@johnmica· Republican · FL· Apr 1, 2014

I think it should be renamed Operation Fearless and Brainless from what we have heard here today.

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Lamar Smith
@lamarsmith· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Bridenstine), who is a member of the Science Committee and is the author of this bill.

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Lamar Smith
@lamarsmith· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2413) to prioritize and redirect NOAA resources to a focused program of investment on near-term, affordable, and attainable advances in observational, computing, and modeling…

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Lamar Smith
@lamarsmith· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 2413, the bill now under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

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Lamar Smith
@lamarsmith· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Bridenstine), Ms. Bonamici, and David Schweikert for their hard work on this bill. I appreciate all of the effort they have put into it. It is a wonderful product. It is…

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Lamar Smith
@lamarsmith· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2413, the Weather Forecasting Improvement Act of 2014, will greatly improve our severe weather forecasting capabilities. I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr…

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Lamar Smith
@lamarsmith· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert), who is also chairman of the Environment Subcommittee of the Science Committee.

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Joe Barton
@joebarton· Republican · TX· Apr 1, 2014

I wish we had a copy of that to show school children what America is all about.

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Mike Coffman
@mikecoffman· Republican · CO· Apr 1, 2014

Is a waiver obtained from the director for every surgical implant purchased on the open market?

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