Ed Whitfield

The gentleman from Massachusetts may view this as being about Peter Pan and Tinker Bell and fairy dust, but we have 197 organizations representing rural America that consider it a real problem. At this time, I would like to yield 1\1/2\…

I claim time in opposition. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 5 minutes.

While I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the gentleman from Illinois, I am going to oppose this amendment. I would say, first of all, that this legislation does not change in any way the current EPA standard relating to…

We certainly do appreciate this discussion on this important bill. I can tell you that rural America does consider this to be a real problem. The gentleman from California mentioned, correctly so, that we're operating under 1987…

At this time I would like to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

American farmers, ranchers, and other rural businesses, like many other sectors of our economy, have faced an onslaught of EPA regulations. Now, we all support the environment, but our economy is struggling today, and every regulation adds…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. {time} 1300 Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Flake The CHAIR. It is now…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 317, noes 98, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 904] AYES--317 Adams…

I might say that during the debate on this bill in committee, a lot was made of mining activities in rural America, and I would just point out that there are 17 Federal laws that mining operations must abide by. So we didn't feel like we…

I claim time in opposition to the motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 5 minutes.

This is a little off topic. We have a young man who served the Energy and Commerce Committee and me personally for many years and did an outstanding job. His name is Jeff Mortier. Tomorrow is his last day as an employee of the House of…

Today's hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline is a direct response to the administration's failure to issue a permit to build this pipeline.

The President had a golden opportunity to take bold action and create jobs for America, and he declined to do so.

The announcement to delay a decision until after next year's election to me appears to be blatantly political.

I am extremely disappointed with the State Department's announcement there would be an additional delay of at least 15 months on the grant permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

We think the science is clear also and that is why we think that moving forward with legislation would remove any ambiguity whatsoever.

we are only one lawsuit away from you being forced to regulate dust particulates from farming activities or the roads

The current PM10 standard is 150 micrograms per cubic meter.

I claim time in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 5 minutes.

Back in 2004, the D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, in a court decision, invalidated the 2004 Boiler MACT rules promulgated by EPA. In that court decision, EPA came to the court and said, We need additional time to come out with new Boiler…

Secretary Chu's decision this week to not delegate this authority to FERC is quite timely because I noticed in my comments here, he had not made that decision yet when they wrote this.

I want to thank the gentleman from Tennessee for offering this amendment. He always does a great job of articulating his position on these issues, some of which are pretty complicated. In this amendment, he would add illness-related work…

I move that the Committee do now rise. The motion was agreed to. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Griffith of Virginia) having assumed the chair, Mr. Duffy, Acting Chair of the Committee of the Whole House…

Order 1000 seeks to provide flexibility to regions with respect to how regions should plan and pay for new transmission.

Well, without objection, and of course, we have the rule of the committee that she will have to wait until all the members of subcommittee ask their questions.