Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Utah. The bill we are considering today is very simple: It's a bill that protects one of the Nation's most abundant and cheap energy sources-- coal--and ensures that some of the highest-paid family wage jobs in the country are saved. I want to focus on title I of H.R. 3409 that limits the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to issue new burdensome regulations under SMCRA until the end of 2013. This title will put a short timeout on the recklessly rushed rulemaking by the administration that has resulted in millions of wasted dollars and confusion by all parties regarding the current management of coal by the Office of Surface Mining. This rulemaking has been an unmitigated disaster, with the administration attempting to compress what ordinarily would take 36 months into 15 months. When news got out about how many jobs would be lost under these proposed rules, the administration fired the independent contractor who provided the analysis. The administration's own analysis is that 7,000 direct mining jobs would be lost and an additional 29,000 people would fall below the poverty level in the Appalachian basin alone. The proposed rules would have a negative economic impact in 22 States. How in the world can a President who gives lip service to creating jobs allow his bureaucrats to kill jobs in coal States?…”