Political Quotes

“I want to thank my friend from Kentucky, the chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, for yielding and for bringing forward the Ratepayer Protection Act. Mr. Chairman, this bill goes directly to the heart of these radical regulations, which are coming out of agencies like the EPA, that are killing jobs in America. When you look at this regulation, this proposal by the EPA that this bill addresses, the EPA is proposing to bring forward more radical regulations that are going to increase the cost of household electricity for every family in this country. The estimates show you will see an over 12 percent increase in household electricity rates if the EPA is allowed to move forward. When you look at what this legislation does, at least it stands up and protects hard-working taxpayers who are tired of all of these regulations--one after the other--coming forward, not through legislation passed by Congress--in open, public settings like this that you can watch on C-SPAN--but coming forward through unelected bureaucrats at the EPA who want to carry out their own agenda. They can't pass it through Congress, so they try to just ram it through in regulations that aren't backed up by science but that would, in fact, actually, lead to more jobs being shipped out of this country. Where would those jobs go, Mr. Chairman? They would go to places like China and India and Brazil and to other countries that don't have the environmental standards that we have.…”