Kit Bond

EPA slapped together a mere 38 pages of excuses and analogies.

If you think about it, a smaller pie produces smaller slices.

This means, by my calculations, electric consumers will receive nearly $16 billion less from Kerry-Boxer in protection against higher energy prices.

Unfortunately, this latest cap-and-trade bill was just released late Friday night.

I was disappointed to hear that this Committee was not going to be able to get an opportunity to consider in a classified session some of the provisions in the bill that Judiciary just passed out on the PATRIOT Act.

I agree with all that you said about Mr. Gompert. His background is outstanding.

Unfortunately, President Obama seems more interested in Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy than expanding American nuclear energy.

Nuclear power will create tens of thousands of productive jobs, and that is in contrast to the so-called green jobs.

With respect to Waxman-Markey, unfortunately it will do little to stop foreign wars overseas. It will do little to help our climate.

Unfortunately, today we see the truth in little different forms. But I believe that what he says is what he believes to be the truth.

I appreciate the perspective that you would bring to the Economic Development Administration.

Thank you, Chairman Boxer and Ranking Member Inhofe, and of course thank you to Mr. Fernandez for coming before us today.

Emission reductions cut too fast and too deep will cause the closure of coal fired plants.

green jobs are not created but instead must be bought with heavy taxpayer subsidies.

High power and carbon allowance costs will make America's cement and steel uncompetitive and force closure of those plants.

some green jobs, especially wind and solar, kill existing jobs to pay for new green jobs.

Do not get me wrong. I support American green jobs.

Clean energy, American energy, affordable energy, an all of the above strategy that does not kill jobs and raise energy taxes is what we need.

carbon cap-and-trade legislation threatens to kill millions of jobs through higher energy costs that help our competitors in China.

there will be 2.5 million more jobs killed than created.

cap-and-trade legislation will kill millions of U.S. jobs, even after including green job gains.

I urge my colleagues to oppose job killing and energy tax raising cap-and-trade legislation.

cap-and-trade would cut net employment by 2.5 million jobs per year, even after accounting for new green jobs.

What I do question is how we would even consider killing 2.5 million jobs in America when we are in the middle of the worst recession since World War II and suffering high unemployment.

Cap-and-trade is a double-barreled shotgun of lost jobs and higher energy taxes pointed at the Midwest and the South.