Reclaiming my time, is the gentleman from Maryland suggesting that if there are some changes made to the balanced budget amendment in our legislation that there would be 50 votes in the House to support it on your side?

That's good to know. Reclaiming my time, so what you're saying is you guys actually think the balanced budget amendment is a good idea and something we need.

I would just add, 38 of those 50 States would have to agree to this before the Constitution would be amended. The gentleman can say, oh, we're going to write this in. The States get to decide this. That's the other part of this equation. I…

Before yielding to the gentleman from Indiana, let me just say this: This idea that there's no chance this will pass the Senate, how do we know? We don't know until we send it over there. Maybe Harry Reid will have the courage to bring it…

You know why it was rejected? Because it is the same old game. It is exactly the same old game. The cuts come in the outyears; the tax increases come now. And, oh, here we go again. And, yes, there are no specifics to it. It is the same…

Counter to the claims of the President, coal and other fossil fuels are not, 'yesterday's energy.' They are central to our economy's productivity and a critical component of our Nation's competitive advantage.

The Fourth Circuit completely overturned every single ruling of the court.

It may come as a surprise to many Americans that the United States' combined energy resources are the largest on Earth, eclipsing Saudi Arabia, China, and Canada combined.

I think their actions are unacceptable, because they are not looking at the full picture.

Moreover, America's reserves of coal, the source of half of all electrical power in the United States, are unsurpassed, accounting for over 28 percent of the world's total reserves.

The permitorium on coal operations is not the only place where EPA has been hurting economic growth.

I think coal operators can no longer safely make investments, because the EPA has removed some regulatory certainty.

The negative impact, I think of the EPA's action upon jobs, in my view, is obvious.

If you knew all the things government was going to require you to do, would you have started?

Resolution of this issue cannot wait for judicial adjudication.

What has changed is the way those permits are granted, what--the scrutiny or just the enhanced review process, that's what's changed.

What we are trying to get at was were these decisions made by General Motors or were they, in fact, made by the Auto Task Force.

You can't have all this taxpayer money at risk, an Auto Task Force selected by the President, you replaced the board, you replaced the CEO of General Motors, and say we are not running the company. It just has to be one or the other.

There were winners and losers selected.

Taxpayers will end up billions of dollars short due to the money given to GM, and its far from clear that the bailout has succeeded in its goals of revitalizing the company.

the taxpayers need to know, because taxpayers' money was involved, but certainly these Delphi retirees deserve an answer.

It's an action that was done to them by this administration while they were picking winners and losers.

I always look forward to working with the gentleman from Cleveland.

American auto companies have long been a symbol of the industrial vigor that has made our country strong and prosperous.

I encourage you to continue investigating this matter and bringing to light what occurred here.