Bobby Rush

Most of all, I am very concerned what this proposed rule would do to electricity costs for consumers and for job-creating businesses.

I also find EPA's proposed efforts dictating electricity usage to be troubling.

Overall, I see great risks in allowing EPA to overrule each state's choices as to the best electricity mix.

So, Mr. Chairman, we are not California, we are not Kentucky, we are Illinois.

This investment in renewables has helped not only make us less dependent on carbon-intensive energy sources, but has also created tens of thousands of good-paying jobs all across the country.

So young people inside the city of Chicago, in your district and in my district, are actually the raw material of a lifestyle--a middle class lifestyle--for these small towns that surround these prisons because they are in the prisons, and…

Thank you so much, Congressman Davis. I know that you have a response to what I am going to say because I am sure you share the same feeling. I talked about discrimination earlier, and there is one aspect of discrimination that is probably…

I want to commend Ms. McCabe, I want to commend the EPA, I want to commend all your colleagues for the way you have approached this proposal.

The science, Mr. Chairman, is settled. Climate change is real, and it is negatively impacting the lives and livelihoods of the American people.

This rule would allow EPA to use its existing authority under the Clean Air Act to control carbon pollution from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants.

I am absolutely, totally disappointed in the FCC and their position on minority ownership of marketplace.

There are only four African-Americans who own television stations in the Nation, in this great Nation of ours.

As a matter of fact, if I am not mistaken, in the last 3 or 4 years, the percentage of media ownership by minorities has dropped almost 60 percent.

This is the worst time for media ownership by minorities.

I have taken the position over these past couple of decades that one of the reasons why I sit on this committee is to increase the number of minority owners of media across the country.

I am dismally disappointed. I have been disappointed over a number of years because I don't see the vigorous commitment from the FCC.

There is an economic price that we are paying and will continue to pay for the problems of climate change.

I applaud the steps that the Obama administration under your leadership is already taking to reduce our Nation's global footprint.

Nobody on the planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Anyone who doubted that EPA is trying to 'bankrupt the coal industry' as President Obama promised should have been convinced by proposed New Source Performance Standards for new electric utility generating units.

This bill discontinues use of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's standard of 'vulnerable populations' in favor of a newly created standard of 'potentially exposed subpopulation.'

I am excited to see movement on this important issue. I am, however, discouraged by the discussion draft presented.

The title of this bill is the Energy Consumers Relief Act, but yet the majority prevented me from offering an amendment that simply stated that the EPA rules could not be blocked if they resulted in consumers saving money at the gas pump…

Not only did they turn their backs, but the Illinois EPA, the State EPA, refused to even investigate this matter. I had to get the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. EPA to end this atrocity. If this bill is ever enacted, it will bar the…

The issue of providing food costs is an issue that I am extremely sensitive to.