Ed Whitfield

As I see it, the RFS was enacted largely for three reasons--to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and to strengthen rural economies.

It is critically important that the Federal Government maintains its leadership role of promoting, encouraging, and enticing interested stakeholders.

According to the administration, DOE has 15 more home appliance standards in the regulatory pipeline, including ones for computers, light bulbs, air conditioners, ovens, furnaces, battery chargers, dishwashers, and ceiling fans.

In my view, an appliance that saves a few dollars per year on energy but doesn't work as well is being penny wise and pound foolish.

This subcommittee has cast a critical eye on several major regulations--such as the ozone rule and the Clean Power Plan--that threaten billions of dollars in costs and thousands of jobs.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following new section: SEC. 5. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED. No…

We have no further speakers on our side of the aisle except for myself, and I think I have the right to close. I don't know if the gentleman from Illinois has additional speakers or if he would like to go at this time.

Cumbersome red tape in our regulatory process forces ratepayers to pay more for safe, clean nuclear power.

These new technologies and life-saving medical treatments are critical to develop and deploy at a timely pace.

I hope you maintain the rigorous culture of self-analysis that has developed over the previous couple years.

Nuclear energy is, and will continue to be an integral piece of our electricity portfolio.

Thank you all once again for joining us and for your invaluable input.

And so we have a real problem and one comment I would make about Mr. Olson's legislation is some have suggested that we are mandating that only--it be reviewed every 10 years.

I mean, some of you are having some problems in your States of meeting a Federal requirement.

This practical bill simply ensures that air quality continues to improve while avoiding unnecessary harm to State and local governments and to job-creating businesses.

I want to thank Reps. Olson, Flores, Latta, Cuellar, Leader McCarthy, and Whip Scalise for their great work on this legislation...

We face these consequences despite having the toughest air regulations on stationary sources, the toughest air regulations on farms and dairies...

The Clean Air Act needed to be revisited.

The impacts of this climate agenda go beyond the lost jobs and consumer pain.

It is clear that EPA has no authority to implement or enforce the rule pending the judicial review process.

Today is our final EPA budget hearing for the Obama administration, and as always I welcome Administrator McCarthy and look forward to her comments on the agency's budget and its priorities.

The administration, we recognize, views climate change as the Number 1 issue facing mankind

There are no additional speakers on my side of the aisle. I reserve the balance of my time to close.

I want to point out, once again, that we are here because Congress wants to make the decision that the EPA should set up subcategories in this particular instance. Both the Clean Air Act and the EPA regulations promulgated under it, on a…

It is not often that Congress has the opportunity to help an industry that creates both jobs and energy while also improving the environment, and it is especially rare when we can do that at no cost to the taxpayer. H.R. 3797, the SENSE…