On the recordNovember 3, 2011
And thank you for the points that you raised. Talking about the EPA and the regulations they've issued, I had the opportunity at a committee hearing several months ago, the Energy and Commerce Committee, to discuss with the assistant administrator of the EPA--one of the assistant administrators, Mathy Stanislaus--where we were asking a very simple question: Does the Environmental Protection Agency actually take into account jobs, the impact on jobs when they do an economic analysis? And the answer we got was, no, he didn't take into account jobs when they did the economic analysis. And I find it hard to believe that anybody could actually have an adequate analysis of a rule or regulation's impact on the economy if they're not even taking a look at jobs and what it means for our economy.
