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On the recordJune 20, 2012
Madam President, I come to the floor this morning to urge an affirmative vote for Senator Inhofe's resolution. With all due respect to my friend from Vermont, this is not a job-creating bill. Virtually everyone who has looked at that has said this will kill jobs; this will move jobs overseas. Everyone who has looked at this has said it will increase the cost of energy for the American taxpayer. It does two things: It kills jobs and it increases the cost of energy. Why would anyone vote for this? This is absolute foolishness. Today, Americans are concerned about jobs--they are really concerned about jobs. Everywhere I go, people ask me about jobs. They ask me about the economy. Today, we, as Senators, have the opportunity to do something about that. The failure of this resolution and the implementation of the rule the EPA has put in front of us is going to kill jobs and is going to increase the cost of energy in America. It is going to do precisely what so many Senators come to the floor and whine about; that is, run jobs overseas. If you are a job creator, if you are someone thinking of investing, if you are someone who wants to move the American economy forward, you look at every single aspect of it. When you see something like this-- and it is not just this, it is this and a parade of never-ending rules and regulations that kill jobs and increase the costs for the job creators--these are things that clearly urge job creators to create jobs in a place other than America.…
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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