I urge you all to approach this review in the most constructive manner possible.

We want the NRC instead to give each one the careful scrutiny that it deserves and only approve the applications that meet the rigorous safety and security standards that the Commission itself establishes.

I would ask you to re-look at that, because I don't think that is correct in your testimony.

Cost benefit analysis, again, we welcome EPA to justify the loss of jobs for negligible toxic emittent benefits.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kafkaesque. That is pretty impressive for someone from Louisiana.

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 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.

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

My colleague just said the only way is to reduce demand. Well, that is not the only way. Republicans continue to move on all-of-the-above energy strategies that increase supply. You know what happens when you increase supply? You increase…

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

I would like to thank my colleague from Kentucky for the time, and I appreciate this opportunity to really talk about this. I rise reluctantly to oppose my friend from Houston. I know she has a lot of her constituents who work in the…

I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the chairman of the Energy and Air Quality Committee, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Whitfield). {time} 1730

I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Chairman, just to put things back on the table, H.R. 910 completely preserves the car rule under the EPA, emissions standards for passenger cars and trucks for model years 2012 to 2016. We had…

It is great that we have this chance to be on the floor today to really address one of the most important job- creating pieces of legislation we have brought to the floor, and that is this legislation today. For the climate change…

How much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Massachusetts has 2 minutes remaining.

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

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.