Mike Pompeo

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Ms. McCarthy, for being here today.

I think the Utility MACT rule is designed to create costs which prohibit that, and isn't about a good environmental policy but instead is about energy policy, trying to drive coal out as an affordable source for manufacturers and consumers…

Isn't it fair to say that this new rule is a ban on new coal-fired power plants, in effect?

So it is--so that is right, so----

Your views of this are--come from books?

Do you think that there will be new coal-fired power plants built in the United States following the implementation of this rule?

Indeed, another way to look at Mr. Bivens's economic error is if I sell something for $5, it is not a zero sum gained, right?

Is this Logan 1? So there is a single--of all the plants in the United States today, there is a single existing plant that meets these new requirements.

Did you consider the economic impacts to all of those businesses that will be affected by the cost increase for electricity?

We should decide if this is in the American national interest.

I understand that Mr. Waxman doesn't like this pipeline.

He spent 4 minutes and 31 seconds testifying.

We often come to the podium to talk about a bill or piece of legislation. Today I have the great privilege to stand in support of protecting every human life. In Kansas is a place that has marked a great piece in the history of the…

In 36 days, the President will have an opportunity to do a great thing for America. He'll have an opportunity to allow private industry with private funds to build a pipeline to carry petroleum all across the country to lower the price for…

I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a great day for rural America. H.R. 1633 is going to do what we've been trying to do for a long time, during my entire 11 months in the United States Congress, which is to provide just a little…

I would use 'reckless' and 'grossly mismanaged' as a program.

the $10 billion that was appropriated was for the entire portfolio of loans, correct?

It wasn't designed to cover losses; it was designed to cover interest rates and subsidies.

I applaud the House for taking up H.R. 822, the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act. As a veteran and a strong defender of the Second Amendment, I encourage all of my colleagues to support me in this important piece of legislation. In…

the public has the right to know, you know, whether or not this regulation, this new rulemaking, what the impact is going to be on American jobs.

So I think it was Mr. Waxman and you had a little colloquy about all the horrors that could follow.

It is intended to stop the EPA from regulating farm dust, and I yield back the balance of my time.

The issue we are talking about today, the effort to regulate farm dust as a particulate pollutant, is one of the most concerning and potentially most burdensome regulations coming from Washington, D.C., in my 10 months here so far.

This doesn't eliminate any regulation. This just gives the States the ability to do it.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I rise today in strong support of H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act, and I want to thank Congressman Pitts for his hard work on this legislation. Kansas has long been on the front lines of defending life…