On the recordApril 16, 2015
I appreciate you making time to be down here with me today. Mr. Speaker, I am down here to talk about the war on coal. And when I say ``the war on coal,'' people think of that as if we can actually go and attack a natural resource. I am not worried about attacking natural resources. I am worried about the impact it has on American families. In particular, I am worried about the impact it has on families in my district in Georgia. Mr. Speaker, you can't see this chart, but it is a chart that represents section 111(d). It is the language that the President used to create his new carbon emission targets. I am not saying that Congress passed a law to do this, because Congress didn't pass a law. The President just decided he was going to do it. I am not saying that the House and the Senate got together and debated it, because we didn't get together and debate it. The President just decided this was the way it was going to be. It is 292 words that were already in statute. The President has turned it into a 130-page regulation that he is implementing on the country--hundreds more pages of technical support documents going behind that. This is what President Obama's constitutional law professor had to say. Again, this is a regulation that the President, Mr. Speaker, is implementing without any action of Congress whatsoever.…
