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On the recordJuly 12, 2011
I know we're wrapping up here tonight, but I want to talk about one more thing and how the President's policies and his Environmental Protection Agency are destroying jobs in Kansas. In Kansas' Fourth Congressional District, we build an awful lot of airplanes. They need an awful lot of electricity to build those planes and to run those plants. Our agriculture community also depends on having the EPA out of the way. Today, I sat in a hearing where the Democrats continued to say we need tighter utility regulations, that we need a set of utility rules that will make it almost impossible to build a new utility plant in America. We need that energy. When we don't have that energy, prices and costs for our farmers go up, and that translates very directly. It translates into the cost of food at the table. When I talk to seniors, they say, Mike, we know what we spend money on. We spend it on the simple things. We spend it on food and energy to heat our homes. If we keep these policies up, we will be pricing our seniors into a place no one wants them. {time} 1950 It doesn't have to be. We have American energy; we can get it.
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Mike Pompeo
Republican · Kansas

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