On the recordOctober 5, 2011
I know that we're going to be hearing a lot about mercury today. I would like to point out that it's been indicated that 98 percent of the mercury present in America today, air, land, and so forth, comes from natural causes and from sources outside of the United States. And the EPA, in its analysis of the cement regulation that they just issued, did not assign any dollar value that would come from the reduction of mercury emissions. {time} 1320 So I think that this is a red herring that our friends are bringing up on the other side. At this point in time, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Sullivan), the author of this legislation.
