My concern with that is that the environmentalists, rather than EPA and the appropriate branches of government, are establishing our environmental policy.

Mr. Kucinich. American Electric Power claims the cost of complying with the regulations affecting power plants will result in an increase in electricity prices of 10 to 35 percent.

I am going to submit questions in writing so that Ms. Henry can become familiar with the questions that we are concerned about.

Ohio's electric sector also has the dubious honor of ranking first in the amount of toxic air pollution emitted in 2009.

Has EPA ever done a quantification of that in terms of the dollar cost to the economy then if people are sick? You know, it is expensive.

Sir, if this legislation became law, what impact would it have on EPA's ability to fulfill its mandate under the Clean Air Act and implement the air pollution rules covering pollution from power plants?

Will those plants stay closed?

Mr. Kucinich. According to EPA's own regulatory impact analysis for the final Transport Rule, the agency's economic model suggests an average national price increase for energy is 0.16 percent.

Industry always claims the sky will fall if they have to minimize the health and environmental harms their business practices cause.

Our own State of Ohio will gain as many as 76,240 jobs to build the capacity to implement the new regulations in the first 5 years.

the protection of clean air and clean water, on which we depend every single day.

You have no knowledge whatsoever of any kind of discussion draft that relates to a bill by that name?

Isn't there a disproportionate impact on communities near plants that emit mercury pollution?

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The huffing and puffing over the debt crisis is reminiscent of Washington's tumult over the Wall Street bailout: Panic the public with claims the sky is falling and then start to drop things from the sky. In this case threats that Social…

The rancorous debate over the debt belies a fundamental truth of our economy: that it is run for the few at the expense of the many, that our entire government has been turned into a machine which takes the wealth of the mass of Americans…

But I am afraid that we are falling into a rut here that is going to be the detriment not only of this committee and this Congress but of the Nation.

What has this committee done to simply some of the forms? Nothing. So isn't it time for a new approach?

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But it won't put Appalachian miners back to work. The economics of coal work against that.

I'm deeply troubled by the fact that the House passed the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 yesterday.

But we want clean water. We want clean air. And I would just say to my friend, that when you see--I understand you have to go--but when we see that there are egregious violations, we have to follow them.

I hope we have a chance to go to the Coal River Valley in West Virginia, because notwithstanding what the gentlemen here say from the industry, there's been pretty serious complaints and documented reports about poison water, massive…

Everyone in this room today shares a common desire to put America back to work.