Bill Johnson

I am insulted by it. The people in Appalachia that harvest coal and depend on coal for their livelihoods, they are insulted by it.

I have to start my comments, you know, it is almost laughable the comments by the Ranking Member referring to the Bush rule as a midnight rule.

This legislation should be opposed.

This thing was trying to be shoved down the States' throats, down the coal industry's throats at lightning speed without giving the States and the industry a chance to adequately review.

The Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act

This is an atrocity. And again, I encourage my colleagues to support our legislation.

We don't want them to rewrite the rule. The industry doesn't want them to rewrite the rule.

I submit that the administration and your Department have made it very clear that your support is behind big business, it is not behind hard-working American families.

Mr. Johnson. Yes, I would ask you to go back and check, Mr. Secretary----

I would like to clarify for the record that is a statutory not a scientific limit.

Most of DOE's current nuclear waste management activities rely on taxpayer funding appropriated in 2012 and under the Continuing Resolution for 2013.

Mr. Johnson. OK. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.

You don't know. I am not surprised that you don't know.

I have never been a litigator, but I have been a job creator, I have been a businessman. And I know what this rulemaking is doing to the jobs in my district.

You need to stop dodging the voice of the American people and come clean with what this rulemaking process is all about.

No audio recordings have been provided by your Department. Those are still being withheld.

Can you tell me how you plan to offset the cost of the thousands of jobs that are going to be lost?

How is your rulemaking process going to address that cost, Mr. Pizarchik?

For you to insinuate that you actually have more oversight and more legal authority to extract information from coal companies than we, the voice of the American people, have to get information from you and this Administration on what you…

This Committee is the voice of the American people.

I am sure you are not either. You know, the Administration has had 3 years to work on this...

I would like to thank the panel for being here.

This is going to be a daily, daily obligation to protect not only our national security, but our industries, and our businesses across the country.

Hopefully, through our negotiations with India we can help them understand that if they want American companies to consider India an emerging market they better start playing fairly in the game.

H.R.1357 - Introduced by Rep. Bill Johnson(OH) - Amends the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011...