On the recordSeptember 23, 2011
I would like to remind everyone once again that the TRAIN Act is applied to 14 regulations coming out of EPA, and it's seldom that Congress intervenes in these regulations. But there are so many of these, and the cost of jobs and the cost of buying the equipment and the lack of achievability of many of them to meet the criteria is the reason we want to do this study. I would remind everyone we do not delay in any way any of these regulations except two of them. I would say to the gentlewoman from Wisconsin that I agree with her. Many of the communities that would most suffer high energy prices and unemployment as a result of the EPA regulations are those communities that rely on affordable, reliable, coal-fired energy to light their homes and run their businesses. These communities are the least able to afford increased unemployment, increased energy prices, and the illness that results from unemployment and being unable to afford fuel. And I might say that when EPA does their analysis, they never look at the effect of the health of the children of the people working in the coal mines and the utility plants who lose their jobs, and there is an impact on it. But I think this is a good amendment that would help the analysis, and I would like to tell the lady from Wisconsin we would be happy to accept this amendment.
