Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, this amendment prohibits funds under this act from being used to enforce two rules under Obama's so-called Clean Power Plan. This plan was administrative overreach, plain and simple. It would have mandated the shutdown of power plants and increased energy costs for families across the country. The Clean Power Plan is just another example of Obama-era regulations killing American jobs, strangling our economy, and destroying our domestic energy industry. The proposed Clean Power Plan would have required Arizona, my State, to achieve a 52 percent reduction in the CO<INF>2</INF> emissions rate for affected power plants and to achieve about 90 percent of that reduction by next year, 2020. That was totally unrealistic. Arizona has Palo Verde nuclear plant. It is the largest producing nuclear plant in the entire Nation. Often Arizona produces more energy than it consumes, and so we sell our energy and our electricity throughout the Southwest. So Arizona energy is American energy. The regulations that strangle Arizona power generating stations harm American consumers well beyond our borders. I applaud the Trump administration for recognizing the harm of the Clean Power Plan and repealing and replacing it with the Affordable Clean Energy rule.”