On the recordSeptember 20, 2012
I would say to the gentleman that we can accept all of the scientific evidence. When the Administrator of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, came to the committee, she was asked the question: What will happen if other countries don't do the same thing that we're doing? In other words, what's going to happen if other countries don't regulate greenhouse gases? She said the benefits for Americans will be very small, if anything, if that happens. EPA even conceded in its own analysis of its automobile regulations that it estimates it will reduce the Earth's future temperature by one one-hundredth of a degree in 90 years. So let's just do a balancing act here. We have a regulation proposed which, when finalized, would prohibit the building of any coal-powered plant in America, and the administrator of EPA says that the regulation would be ineffective unless other countries joined in. With that, I respectfully request the defeat of the gentleman's amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
