Oct 20, 2009
My biggest problem is singling out individual States that will be so disadvantaged--Utah, Kentucky, South Dakota, and many others--if in fact the Waxman-Markey bill is passed as presently constructed.
Jim Bunning
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Jim Bunning is a former United States Senator from Kentucky, serving from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bunning was known for his strong conservative positions and advocacy for fiscal responsibility. Before his political career, he was a professional baseball player, notably a pitcher in Major League Baseball, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. Bunning's tenure in the Senate included a focus on issues such as energy policy and workers' compensation reform, often criticizing the Department of Energy's handling of compensation programs for workers.
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Oct 20, 2009
We happen in Kentucky to think it's not the right number, and I can tell you people from Wyoming and my good friend from South Dakota and Illinois and Indiana and Ohio think that that's the wrong number.
Oct 20, 2009
You could just do a carbon tax and that would hit everybody in every State equally, I would hope.
Oct 20, 2009
Do you agree that this puts high carbon intense States, like my home State of Kentucky, at a severe disadvantage?
Oct 20, 2009
Instead of expanding government welfare and taxing energy consumers, Congress should focus on providing pro growth policies.
Oct 20, 2009
Kentucky families will have to pay more than their fair share under this bill.
Oct 20, 2009
Ultimately, this will decide who will bear the greatest costs of paying for this bill.
Oct 19, 2009
We feel that we--or we would not have made the proposal that has been made if we didn't feel that it were just absolutely necessary to keep the housing market from falling out of bed if we didn't continue this.
Oct 19, 2009
In other words, the Government subsidies are going to have to continue until that time?
Oct 19, 2009
So we are financing our own bailouts through GSEs through the taxpayer, period.
Oct 19, 2009
When will the housing market be able to stand on its own without Government subsidies?