Political Quotes

“I thank Chairman Schweikert for yielding. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues and the sponsor have done a good job of describing what the bill is and what it does and why it is necessary. I want to talk a little bit about what is at stake. I think the first thing that we have to consider that is at stake is the unilateral disarmament of the American economy by virtue of destroying, really, our global competitiveness. It is an interesting time to talk about it. Our President just came back from making a deal in China, a climate deal in China, where the Chinese are allowed to continue to pollute for 16 years, create more jobs of their own and take some of ours, while we put standards and requirements, emissions requirements on our industries that won't be able to keep up and put our jobs at risk. In my home State of North Dakota, there are 4,000 megawatts of low- cost electricity--the jobs that producing that electricity creates and the competitiveness that that electricity provides for our economy-- that is at stake, all based on EPA rules that are based on some 1970s, decades-old data and studies that are only available to the bureaucrats. {time} 1400 We have, for example, in western North Dakota a brick plant in Hebron, Hebron Brick, that is subject to the MACT rule, which is a rule based on studies that are tightly held, again, and only visible to the bureaucrats.…”