the proposed tailpipe emissions standard is driving us further towards China dependence.

This is not what the EPA is designed to do.

Ensuring a well-functioning supply chain means better infrastructure everywhere, and elimination of bottlenecks wherever they exist.

As the elected representative of the people, I was encouraged that the Court ruled that EPA had exceeded their legislative authority.

It is a dangerously dependent policy that's going to put us dangerously dependent upon China.

Now, regarding the subjects we'll cover today, they're best described as an EPA regulatory onslaught.

We need to encourage more manufacturing in the United States, not create standards so low that many of our small businesses and family farms can't function.

The EPA doesn't need more money. Its regulatory agenda is out of touch with the needs of the American people.

Consequently, reliability of our Nation's electric grid is at risk, as many more of those plants will be prematurely shut down due to a litany of EPA regulations that take reliable energy off the grid with no plan for replacement.

America has the highest environmental labor standards in the world, and Energy and Commerce Republicans are committed to this legacy.

The concerns we raise today are directly from the people that we represent, and we're concerned by the EPA's regulatory agenda.

Time and again, by its own admission, we've seen this administration first choose a policy goal, like forcing consumers to purchase all-electric cars, whether practical and affordable or not, shutting down oil and gas production, or…

These actions place substantial financial burdens on Americans that lower their standard of living.

It is completely unacceptable.

One of the things we really saw in COVID was that we needed accurate data. You can't get ahead of an emergency and create a response to it if you don't have that.

My Prevent Pandemics Act, which was signed into law last year, includes directives to ASPR to assist state and local health departments in accessing the Strategic National Stockpile.

We have to make sure that our investments reflect the reality that illness is one of our Nation's deadliest adversaries and biggest economic and national security threats.

After a global pandemic that brought the world economy to a grinding halt and cost more than one million American lives, House Republicans are seriously suggesting that we slash funding for life-saving research.