This bill doesn't cripple anything. Laws that are currently on the books stay on the books. The problem is that the EPA uses bad science. I say that not as a Republican. I say that as quoting other scientists. For example, a gentleman who…

I withdraw my point of order, and I claim the time in opposition to the motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The point of order is withdrawn. The gentleman from Louisiana is recognized for 5 minutes.

I cannot understand why somebody would object to this. The bill is about transparency, and this amplifies that transparency. EPA can impose rules which cost tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars on the U.S. economy. Those expenses…

I want to thank Chairman Upton, Chairman Whitfield, and their staff for their hard work in preparing this important legislation and bringing it to the House floor, which, by the way, passed the committee with bipartisan support. Currently…

The bill will protect consumers from higher energy prices by providing additional oversight of EPA's most expensive rules that regulate the production, supply, distribution, or use of energy. Most importantly, it protects blue collar jobs…

You mentioned that there is going to be 100 percent attestation for income.

First, let's be clear, this is not just for Louisiana. This $2 million will be available nationwide. And that said, I rise in support of this amendment. Budgets are about establishing priorities and then making wise use of scarce…

Much less mercury and much less lead.

I am not sure if we are much healthier that way.

Of course, intuitively you know since EPA has been operating our environment has become cleaner.

no one likes change, even from worse to better.

The best study from NBER has shown that Medicaid expansion did not improve health outcomes.

Medicaid, as I like to say, is the illusion of coverage without the power of access.

Medicaid prevents people from having financial duress, but you did not make the claim that it improves health.

I am a doctor who takes care of Medicaid patients in a public hospital clinic, so I am very familiar that Medicaid can actually have a beneficial effect.

How much time do I have left? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana has 1\1/4\ minutes remaining.

So, when I spoke to someone from Wyoming today, she goes, Oh, you're only getting 37.5? Wyoming gets 48 percent. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Hultgren). The time of the gentleman from California has expired.

This is what is broken. This is our coastline, which is melting away. This is what increases our risk. We've lost a land mass equal to Rhode Island in Louisiana. Now, the money that is received, our share will go to this, but it is not…

Because we channeled the Mississippi in order to create navigational services for the rest of the inland nation. And so as you channel that Mississippi, the wetlands lost the nourishing sediment that comes to them.

Well, if you decide to cut off your economic nose to spite your face, I can't help that.

If I may say, I admire your verbal sleight-of-hand because never in the past has royalty sharing been considered earmarks. But if now we're going to start considering royalty sharing earmarks, heck, let's go back and look at every State…

If we want to speak about lucrative revenue, all I ask is to have the same deal that every other State has. No, I don't even ask for the same deal that every other State has, because every other State, if they're interior, gets 50 percent…

Assuming that the gentleman continues to yield to me, I would say, in that case, we need to go back to every State which has a better royalty sharing arrangement with the Federal Government than we and ask to reconsider that. We're not…

This amendment simply stipulates that no later than 60 days after the enactment of H.R. 2231, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue rules to provide clarity, certainty, and stability to the revenue streams we just discussed that were…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: TITLE __--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SEC. __. RULES REGARDING DISTRIBUTION OF…