Henry Waxman

Millions of Americans are already enjoying savings at the pump with new model year 2012, vehicles.

This proposal also includes an amendment previously offered by Mr. Latta on the House Floor.

Ms. McCarthy, will gutting the Clean Air Act help lower gasoline prices?

The two bills that are proposed here are--they are simply not the answer.

We could have tighter oversight and regulation of Wall Street speculators to prevent them from artificially driving up the price of gasoline.

We could repeal the $4 billion per year in Federal subsidies that are currently given to the big oil companies.

I mean, our domestic production is at an 8-year high, and now America is an exporter.

These are not the answers.

The draft bill would do nothing to address high gas prices, but it would delay significant cost effective health protections required under the Clean Air Act.

I am saying that we should not let our economists weigh in on what is and is not healthy air.

We would no longer rely on the science to identify bad air days, and instead we would have to decide what level of smog is protective of public health based on what is cost effective and feasible to address.

Most troubling, however, is the provision unrelated to gas prices. Section 6 would roll back one of the key public health protections in the Clean Air Act.

If you really cared about helping the country become more resilient to gasoline price volatility, you would be working with the administration instead of trying to block President Obama's every initiative.

Americans want clean air. They don't want this committee to use high gasoline prices as an excuse for blocking regulations.

High gasoline prices are being caused by rising global demand, tensions in the Middle East, and tight supplies.

Under Republican leadership this body has become the most anti-environmental Congress in history.

These bills are a package of half-baked ideas and giveaways to the oil industry.

The Gasoline Regulation Act of 2012 would not reduce gas prices, but it would waste government resources and taxpayer dollars.

Let me be clear. Programs to protect public health and to provide American families with scientifically-credible information about the health of the air in their communities are not the cause of high gas prices.

The Republican budget could decimate the funding for clean energy, and House Republicans have even opposed efforts to penalize oil companies that sit on oil leases and refuse to produce any oil until prices go higher.

One of the bills before us contains the Latta Amendment. That is a proposal that will cut the heart out of the Clean Air Act.

If this regulation is adopted, there will not be another coal power plant built in America without carbon capture and sequestration.

I want to congratulate EPA on the carbon power plant regulation. It is required by the law, and it is a good regulation, and I think it makes a lot of sense to protect our environment and for our economy.

Not only did they not reply in any way, did not respond by letter, by phone call, or anything else.

Congress on three separation occasions has said no to regulating greenhouse gas under the Clean Air Act.