Lee Terry: “Thank you, Mr. Bucshon. You mentioned manufacturing and how important it is to your State. The reality is also that…”

“Thank you, Mr. Bucshon. You mentioned manufacturing and how important it is to your State. The reality is also that manufacturing is reliant on affordable and reliable energy. I am the chairman of the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee under Energy and Commerce. We did a series of hearings, Mr. Speaker, on manufacturing in the United States. We had industries of all sorts testify in front of our committee. I left that series of hearings very optimistic about manufacturing in the United States, because what we are seeing is many manufacturers returning to the United States. There was one common theme to every one of the manufacturers that were moving to the United States or returning to the United States, and it was affordable and reliable energy. Many of them use natural gas, whether it is the steel industry that is having a resurgence right now--by the way, a beginning job in the steel industry--and, yes, they are looking for workers right now--$77,000. That is the middle class that is being hammered right now. We need to create those jobs, expand those jobs, but you need affordable and reliable energy. So what is this administration doing? They pass a rule on existing electrical generation plants, existing plants, not ones yet to be built, and they say you have to lower your emission rates to the level of using natural gas. So when we talk about Mr. Bucshon and Mrs.…”