John Rice Carter: “There's a pretty heated argument going on here, and there are a couple of things I would like to point out here. First…”

“There's a pretty heated argument going on here, and there are a couple of things I would like to point out here. First off, the EPA is conducting a reconsideration of certain aspects of the recent cement rules. However, EPA is only reconsidering a certain aspect of these rules. EPA has stayed the effective date on only one of the three rules proposed. They have stayed it only for a short period of time, and environmentalists have sued the EPA for staying the rule. None of the compliance dates for any of the three recent cement sector rules have been changed, and it is not clear that they will be. Only a legislative stay will provide regulatory certainty for these rules. President Obama has publicly stated to us that he learned that ``shovel-ready'' doesn't always mean ``shovel-ready,'' and that we are still waiting for some of the projects from the original stimulus bill to be created because ``shovel-ready'' doesn't mean ``shovel-ready.'' And, in fact, we have a few of these in my district. But let me say this: What we're talking about here is something that we've heard from the administration since the Obama administration has been in charge, and that is it is a success if you have prevented the loss of jobs. So you take credit for saying we didn't lose certain jobs because of this action. Well, we have evidence here that says we are going to lose certain jobs because of this action.…”