However, most of this trend is due to sharply increased domestic oil production--something that few imagined was even possible during the Congressional debates over the RFS.
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Whitfield discusses the decline in oil imports and its relation to domestic production, not the RFS.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to inquire how much time is remaining on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky has 4\3/4\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Illinois has 4 minutes remaining.
Mr. Chairman, I yield an additional 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus), the author of the legislation.
Mr. Chairman, I do rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. I would remind everyone that we are talking about 19 coal refuse plants around the country. They have already cleaned up 214 million tons of coal refuse that are creating…
Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus).





