John Shimkus

The point being, rates will relatively stay unchanged, but you are not including the cost of the waste.

Kafkaesque. That is pretty impressive for someone from Louisiana.

I would submit--and I would check with your attorneys--that you are not complying with the President's Executive Order.

Let's have science-based research, but let's make sure we understand the impacts on jobs.

The President says in his Executive Order you must do it.

If you label an emittent as a toxic, then there is no beneficial use anymore.

I firmly believe we can work to prevent disasters such as the Tennessee Valley incident and come to an agreement on how to promote the recycling of coal combustion waste.

That is why many of us were pleased with the President when he did this Executive Order.

We should not use scare tactics, claiming the public is not protected unless the Feds are on the case.

Now is not the time to send a dramatic negative signal to the economy that jobs are unimportant.

I am enormously skeptical of the efforts by the EPA to begin regulating coal combustion products as hazardous waste.

The concern today is, as the EPA moves forward, if they move in the wrong direction, they are going to do more harm than good.

I now yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the former chairman, the gentleman from Texas, Joe Barton.

This is a really great hearing. I have been a Member since '96. We have dealt with this numerous times.

Now the issue is this, that in a court case what we should have--there is economic damages that should be recovered.

We are from rural districts. We are from districts that have problems with access to care and that is where our passion for this debate comes from.

Fifty-two counties is a third of the State of Illinois, and at that time we would have to airlift folks who are in critical acts.

Thank you Representatives John Shimkus, Mike Rogers, Sue Myrick, Marsha Blackburn, Bob Latta, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Brett Guthrie.

It is curious that the extension of the Bush tax cuts occurred under a Democrat-controlled House, a Democrat-controlled Senate, and signed by a Democrat President.

My issue is, we are triple counting.

You better be double-checking your facts because we are not through with this debate on legal authority.

I think it is a stated federal position by law that Yucca Mountain should be opened.

The folks who are holding the nuclear waste in pools think it is pretty long-term right now.

We want to decrease reliance on imported crude oil.

That is why coal will still be king because it does address the market issues.