On the recordDecember 1, 2015
I yield the gentleman an additional 1 minute. Mr. McDERMOTT. They are really betraying a generation of Americans who are already reeling from the impact of all of this. Coal miners and the communities they live in are bearing the brunt of this irresponsible action by the coal owners. We had the same thing in Washington State with the forests. People said, ``You have to keep cutting trees. Cut every tree you can see that is standing anywhere.'' And we said, ``If you do that, you destroy the environment.'' So we stopped, and we helped the loggers find another way to make a living, and they are doing just fine. Now, if we keep this up and keep resisting and keep exposing the American public, both in the mines and in the cities, to this kind of environment, we are going to pay for it. It is like that FRAM commercial when I was a kid. The FRAM commercial was you either clean your air filter on your car now or you are going to pay me later by having to have the motor redone. That is what this is about. We are talking about a President who says, let's put some new FRAM filters in here and see if we can't cut down the pollution and save both the people and the economy.
