Last fall, EPA Administrator McCarthy met with our Governor, Steve Beshear, to discuss the proposed rule.

I am glad the chairman mentioned Waxman-Markey earlier in his opening remarks, because I was one of a group of 10 or 12 or so Representatives from States that were heavily dependent on carbon, on coal-based energy, who went to our…

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act established a rebate program that helps spur development and adoption of energy-efficient appliances.

So my question is to you, assuming--it is not easy to move a manufacturing company. Ford has almost a couple billion dollars invested in my district, in their two plants. They just can't pick up and leave even if the energy went up.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday's deadly shooting at Reynolds High School in Oregon was the 74th school shooting in America since the gunman murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. That is nearly…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and fellow captain for yielding. I want to congratulate the Republican team on their victory. It was well earned. It was a thumping. As Rahm Emanuel once said of the 2006 election: we got thumped…

Mr. Speaker, Kentucky has been a national model for the Affordable Care Act. In the first 6 months of Kentucky Kynect, the State exchange created by the law, we enrolled nearly 415,000 Kentuckians in new health coverage. That is one in 10…

Mr. Speaker, it has now been more than 4 months since Congress let emergency unemployment insurance expire. In that time, more than 2.8 million job seekers, including 200,000 veterans, have lost the ability to provide for their families…

the Affordable Care Act, far from being the train wreck which many have suggested it would become, is actually getting a great deal of traction as it speeds down the tracks.

we have insured in the period of 6 months roughly half of the previously uninsured population of the State.

It is somewhat reassuring to know that this is not just a Kentucky problem.