My concern is an overabundance of caution at IRIS and an overabundance of caution at EPA with the policymakers could create job loss, economic dislocation, and movement of production overseas.

I would just ask my friends, does that make sense that we are now going to import cement at higher cost from countries who aren't complying with these rules and regulations? I think not. This debate is about jobs and the economy. Now is…

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…

This marks the first of what I hope to be many times to address you and my colleagues on an issue that I have been graced with having the responsibility to deal in the public policy arena, and that's the issue of nuclear waste. When people…

classic economics would suggest that when a product is in demand, prices should rise and the market establish a new equilibrium

The bigger the government is, the more manipulative it gets in the market services, the less its ability to provide goods and services to consumers.

I do apologize to my friend from California for coming late and kind of disrupting what was planned to be a closing, but this is an important debate, and my colleague from California and I have crossed sabers many times on these issues. I…

I didn't just focus on the government pricing. I did say insurers, too.

I am a market-based conservative capitalist, and whenever there is a lag in a commodity good or product, you have to really wonder about the demand and the supply and the available cost because when there is limited supply and a high…

It's been more than 9 months since the December 19 brutal and bloody crackdown on the opposition in Belarus. Human rights of ordinary Belarusan citizens continue to be denied. Nine political prisoners still exist. Nikolay Statkevich…

I am going to take this minute just to do a plug on a bill that we just dropped yesterday, which was the Medicare common access card.

This is critical for the cost of energy and jobs in this country.

We look forward to your analysis.

Editorial, 'An EPA Moratorium,' published August 29, 2011, in The Wall Street Journal, submitted by Mr. Shimkus.

I would just ask this question. It is clear in your testimony provided here today in the materials provided by FERC detailing the meetings between EPA, FERC, DOE that the level of coordination suggested by EPA has not occurred.

I depend on these old coal plants to generate electricity almost every day for more than 2 million households.

These costs are going to be a significant burden. We all like clean air but the people I have need jobs.

I understand who your loyalties lie to, and it is to the environmental left and it is to Harry Reid and this green agenda that can't produce the power needed for reliability and destroys all those jobs I just put up on the slide.

My time is rapidly clicking away, and I want to make sure I raise this issue on the science-based debate.

So would it go up to--would there be 800 then or maybe 1,000 of the 13,000?

You understand my point that I am making----

Eighty-five would have to make changes in their facilities----

We are in an historic heat wave in this country, and I'm not talking about the debate on the debt limit, I'm actually talking about the temperature outside. And what's noted is that many leaders throughout this country--whether they're…

I am not coming down here to blame one side or the other for the financial position that we are in because we all have a part to play in the story, but this is a great day. I was also asked earlier about how I felt about today, and I told…

I taught high school government and history for 4 years. For a bill to become a law, it must pass both Chambers, and then it must be signed by the President. The House has now passed two bills which raise the debt ceiling, cut spending…