Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, today I rise in strong support of H.R. 2, the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act. This important legislation will unleash America's energy potential, create thousands of jobs, and stop the administration from destroying tens of thousands of jobs. I urge all of my colleagues to support it. Representative Lamborn and I sponsored the Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act, which is a portion of this package. This specific title of the bill stops the administration's efforts to virtually eliminate underground mining in the Eastern United States, cost thousands of jobs, and lead to skyrocketing energy costs for all Americans. Since President Obama came into office, his Department of the Interior has tried to rewrite the stream buffer zone rule. The President's preferred rule would cost at least 7,000 direct jobs and thousands more indirect jobs. This estimate is the administration's own estimate, and it could potentially be much worse. The President's rewrite of the rule has been ongoing now for 5 years, has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, and has been the subject of an ongoing investigation by Chairman Hastings and the House Natural Resources Committee. As we have seen across the administration, the Interior Department has largely refused to turn over documents and recordings to the committee in a clear violation of the House's oversight authority.…”