Andy Barr: “I thank the gentlelady. I appreciate all of my colleagues here this evening talking about and highlighting the…”

“I thank the gentlelady. I appreciate all of my colleagues here this evening talking about and highlighting the importance of the future of energy freedom in this country and independence. I would like to yield the balance of our time to the gentleman from California. Mr. LaMALFA I appreciate my colleague from Kentucky having this conversation tonight and allowing me to speak on it. Being from California, we don't have a lot of coal in California, and we don't really use a lot of it either. But what I would like to point out is we have a very similar plight in that many of our industries have been devastated by out-of-control regulations by Federal Government: our timber industry, mining, our ability to trap more water for our water supply. Agriculture is also being affected by overreaching regulations. Also, coal is very important for our entire Nation, and it does have an effect on California, too. What I'm saying here is that, with 42 percent of our Nation's grid being powered by coal and a mandate coming down from the EPA and the President's very aggressive remarks saying that coal is a thing of the past, we're going to put our country in great peril by devastating this industry for our electricity grid. For all the many jobs that are all over the eastern part of this country and part of the West, we're really going to hurt ourselves in this country with this type of policy.…”