Political Quotes

“I thank the full committee chairman. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues on the other side seem to continue living in the past. This bill isn't about the Bush administration. This bill is about the rampant failure of the Obama administration and its inability to craft a reasonable rule on coal mining. They have spent 5 years and nearly $10 million on this rewrite. And for what? What have they produced? Absolutely nothing. Their waste-ridden, failed effort is apparently nothing more than a sham facade over a real agenda--to kill coal mining. You don't have to take my word for it. This is a direct quote from an inspector general investigator's interview with a current DOI contractor working on the rule, Emily Medine. She said the rule appears to be ``an effort to kill coal mining.'' Also, the Department has continued to insist on falsifying the baseline to reduce the stated impacts of their rulemaking. As you can see from the interview with the current contractor, over here, OSM continues to insist that companies use the more restrictive but never implemented 2008 rule as a baseline in an effort to hide the real economic impacts of whatever rule they want to come up with. Again, don't take my word for it. Right here, OSM's own contractor says that by using the more restrictive 2008 rule, they will show fewer job losses.…”