Today's hearing considers yet another bill to allow more air pollution, more asthma and more heart attacks.

I take issue with his suggestion that this is somehow politically motivated.

Let me take exception to... there is nothing in the law that says this dust is from rural areas...

The supporters of this bill claim that this legislation will save jobs. Their main evidence is a report by the Electric Power Research Institute that claims that regulating coal ash as hazardous waste would lead to the loss of 300,000…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. To be fair, this amendment does make a few positive changes to the legislation. It adds some requirements to recordkeeping, groundwater monitoring, and runoff controls. But as with the underlying…

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or RCRA, was passed to protect the public health and the environment from unsafe disposal of solid waste. It created duties reserved to the EPA and programs that could be…

Today the assault on the environment in this body continues. Two weeks ago the House voted to repeal the health standards in the Clean Air Act and block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating toxic emissions from power plants…

I yield myself the balance of my time. I just want to point out that neither of us wants the stigma of the coal ash being called hazardous because, in many ways and places, it can be reused, and it would be very important to do that. But…

I just want to say to my good friends who feel that we've got to move the bill forward and we've got to get a better bill, I understand that, and this bill is going to move forward. But for those who really want a good bill, we're not…

Thank you very much. You've made the claim that we're trying to define this and label it as hazardous, which is a stigma. I understand that and I agree with that point, but I don't think we ought to deny that there are in coal ash…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, after line 5, insert the following new subparagraph: ``(H) The coal combustion residuals permit…

If the gentleman will continue to yield, your point is not accurate for existing impoundments; it would apply to future impoundments. And we think for existing impoundments they ought to have the lining and all the other protections as…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, I just wanted to make a correction for the record. Some people have suggested that it's going to be considered a hazardous waste site if they dispose of this waste, and we don't…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 267, noes 144, not voting 22, as follows: [Roll No. 800] AYES--267…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Markey The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I claim time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.

At this point I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).

May I inquire how much time we have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 7 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Illinois has 8 minutes remaining.

The gentleman from West Virginia, who just spoke, said that I was inconsistent because I voted for the Baldwin amendment in my committee, so I can't have my cake and eat it too. Well, I want to assure you that I don't want a cake made out…

The Department of Energy runs the program and they heard from you, your department, that there were concerns about the subordination issue, isn't that correct?

And Members of the Congress of the United States, this bill is an absolute disgrace. With all the problems we have in this country--economic crisis, poverty levels at the highest we've seen in a generation, urgent needs for our schools…

We will lose millions of jobs if we give up the industry to China.

In other words, a woman who may die from her pregnancy, if she is in for emergency services, the doctor can refuse to give her emergency services if his conscience would prohibit performing an abortion. Taken as a whole, this bill is a…

I cannot disagree more strongly with the chairman's statement. The clean energy economy will be the growth industry of this century.

Preventing the Department of Energy from testifying is not fair, suppressing exculpatory evidence is not fair.