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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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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

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

Your sum total experience there is precisely zero.

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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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Feb 7, 2012

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?

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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

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

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

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Feb 7, 2012

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

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

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