I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, line 2, strike the semicolon and insert the following: ``, including a description of the State's…

For the purpose of a colloquy, I would like to yield to the gentleman from West Virginia. Mr. McKINLEY. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Before I agree to support the gentleman's amendment, I would like some clarification on one of the…

I seek time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 5 minutes.

Reclaiming my time, that's why this new standard under the municipal and solid waste act will have liners for the first time. Right now, there are no liners. That's a better argument from past years, but this is a fix. This is a fix to…

You have a lot of time, but I would be happy to yield. But I do want to have time to close.

Reclaiming my time, the manager's amendment that will be debated will talk about, for the first time, an analysis on run-on and runoff, which was the recommendation from the folks on your side of the aisle for us to consider, which we have…

Again to my colleague and friend from West Virginia, my amendment in no way reduces the administrator's authority to take into account facility capabilities. That authority is unchanged by both my amendment and your underlying bill. Mr…

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Just to my friend from Virginia, I hope he will look at the manager's amendment, because in the manager's amendment it beefs up the list of constituents for groundwater…

Before I yield time to my colleague from Tennessee, let me ask the time remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 17 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from California has 13 minutes remaining.

To my friend from West Virginia, my response is that it does not. My amendment keeps that door to EPA alternative regulation closed and locked. The language the gentleman cites merely references law that is already on the books, as you…

I thank the gentleman. I reserve the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 1 minute remaining, and the gentleman from Illinois has 4 minutes remaining.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 2273, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act. Fifty percent of our Nation's electricity generation comes from coal. This means that we need to do…

I'm just here to speak in support of the rule. First of all, on April 14, 2011, the Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy, which I chair, held a legislative hearing on the coal ash bill, H.R. 1391. Based on this hearing and…

It's not because of the input we got from Democrats to change that original bill. So that's why. I mean, it was bipartisan. Mr. McGOVERN. I reclaim my time. So the new definition of openness under the Republican majority is you don't have…

I want to again thank the ranking member for accepting this, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus). The amendment was agreed to…

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Let me thank my colleague for offering an amendment to the bill. A couple of things have been discussed during the debate. Obviously, she mentioned Kingston, Tennessee. What she has to remember is that was TVA…

Thank you, Madam Chairman. A couple of things. The gentleman's well-meaning amendment requires public notice and comment, including from the administrator of the EPA, before the State submits its certification paperwork to the…

Thank you. My friend from Massachusetts has great rhetorical skills, and I have finally made it to the big time where I can do it as managing a bill and addressing amendments. He wasn't on the floor when we talked about the letter from the…

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I appreciate the comments of my colleague from California because obviously there is a recognition that we have been talking, we have been trying to get some bipartisan support. As tough as that may seem in this…

I appreciate the ranking member's accepting the amendment. We do think it improves the bill. I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green).

I come to the floor a second time, as I promised a couple of weeks ago, to talk about high-level nuclear waste in the Yucca Mountain repository. Two weeks ago I highlighted Hanford, Washington, a DOE site that has 53 million gallons of…

Now we have evolved, and this green movement, which I would argue would bring high-cost electricity in.

I know what our intent was. I know what the courts have ruled, which is against the intent of Congress, for expedited siting.

When I go home, my constituents are saying government is too big, it costs too much, get out of things that it really has no constitutional right to be delving in.

I think that it is so unfair for people to portray this as obtrusive, big government. It is just nonsense.