Political Quotes

“I'm pleased to come down here to thank the Rules Committee for the modified open rule and a chance for us to go through this bill bit by bit, amendment by amendment, to address concerns that my friends on the other side of the aisle might have about this. {time} 1320 I am following my good friend from Oregon, and I appreciate his passion. But I come to the floor to talk about the jobs. And the EPA, whom I've also rallied against numerous times, produced the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule in July. The result of that is two power plants in Illinois are closing. One is 369 megawatts, and the other one is 302 megawatts. That means 671 megawatts of basal power is going to be offline. If you understand the law of supply and demand--less supply plus similar demand or higher demand equals higher costs--then it's very easy to project higher energy costs for everybody across this country because of that rule. Secondly, the job losses. In the first plant, 14 management and 39 union-represented employees will lose their jobs. That's at plant number one. At plant number two, eight management and 29 union- represented employees will lose their jobs. We do this and we come down and we have these debates on the role of the EPA so that we can have the debate about jobs in this economy. This is not the time--in fact, I have asked the President, the best thing he could do for his own reelection and for the country is stop doing things.…”