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Mike Pompeo

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Mike Pompeo is a Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 70th United States Secretary of State from April 2018 to January 2021 under President Donald Trump. Prior to his role as Secretary of State, he was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from January 2017 to April 2018. Pompeo has also served as a U.S. Representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2017, where he was known for his strong stance on national security and foreign policy issues. Throughout his career, he has emphasized a robust approach to counterterrorism and has been an advocate for American energy independence.

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May 8, 2012

I agree with Mr. Doyle. I read the objections Ms. Hoffman and Ms. McCarthy have, and you are concerned that you will create an incentive for power plants to sort of do nothing and hope they will get an order.

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May 8, 2012

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kansas will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Cicilline

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Apr 26, 2012

I want to thank Chairman Rogers and Chairman Ruppersberger for their hard work on this important piece of legislation. I am among those folks who, when I first learned of this legislation, had some concerns to make sure that it was…

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Apr 26, 2012

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 14, after line 13, insert the following: ``(4) Limitation on federal government use of cybersecurity…

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Apr 26, 2012

I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Rogers), the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. {time} 1550

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Apr 26, 2012

Woman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Pompeo). The amendment was agreed to. {time} 1620 Amendment No. 12 Offered by Mr. Woodall The Acting…

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Apr 26, 2012

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 8, beginning on line 18, strike ``or sharing information'' and insert ``to identify or obtain cyber…

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Apr 26, 2012

I appreciate this opportunity to offer a second amendment to this incredibly important piece of legislation that's been worked on for an awfully long time to balance the security needs of our Nation and the privacy rights of every United…

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Apr 25, 2012

I want to applaud you all and Chairman Camp for efforts to get rid of particular tax credits and deductions and flatten our Tax Code.

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Apr 25, 2012

I do not predict the doom and gloom for the wind energy that these folks speak of.

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Apr 25, 2012

I would argue that one of the most if not the most egregious example of our Tax Code failures lies in these energy tax credits.

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Apr 25, 2012

I am proud to be a co-sponsor of legislation introduced by Chairman Tiberi and Ranking Member Neal to make the AFE Rule permanent.

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Apr 25, 2012

I think it is common sense and it is being actively supported by small Government conservative organizations like Americans for Tax Reform, the National Taxpayers Union, Heritage Action, the Club for Growth, Freedom Actions, Americans for…

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Apr 18, 2012

The President has more times than we have minutes remaining in our day talked about corporate fat cat jet owners.

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Mar 27, 2012

I will tell you compared to solar, compared to wind, compared to all the things that you are taking taxpayer money to throw resources at, I will promise you that coal is intensely competitive.

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Mar 6, 2012

And for every trade that there is a winner, there must be a loser.

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Mar 6, 2012

You know, you can see on this side it is--there are a lot of folks who just don't get how the--we come to these hearing and hear folks try to repeal the law of supply and demand.

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Mar 5, 2012

Today I rise to commend the Air Capital Chapter of AMBUCS. AMBUCS provides mobility and transportation for people with disabilities. They provide therapeutic tricycles and bicycles to children and veterans with disabilities, and they give…

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Feb 15, 2012

On Monday of this week, 2 days ago, the President released his budget plan. It will take America's deficits, or total debt, to over $27 trillion. That's a big number. It's hard to get our heads around numbers like that. So I want to talk…

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Feb 7, 2012

If there are no new coal-fired power plants built in America following this rule, would you be willing to at least consider the possibility that it was a direct result of this rule?

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Feb 7, 2012

In Kansas, we have got a plant we have been trying to build that has an existing air permit.

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Feb 7, 2012

So if we had a regulation that costs someone to take a stack of dollar bills, a million bucks, and burn them, that would be a cost to that business, correct?

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Feb 7, 2012

Your sum total experience there is precisely zero.

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Feb 7, 2012

We talked about Logan 1. In fact, there is really no power plant in existence today that can consistently meet the requirements that the new rule would require.

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Feb 7, 2012

So where did this money go? This regulation required them to--that was a compliance cost. They were forced to burn the million dollars.

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