We must defeat this bill or anything like it and pass a common sense energy policy for America.
Sometimes we forget that nuclear energy produces 20 percent of our electricity but 70 percent of our carbon-free electricity.
Under this bill, there is no protection for this industry.
Only in Washington can we develop these thoughtless policies.
When you hear claims about Draconian cap-and-trade proposals like Waxman-Markey will cost Americans a postage stamp a day, that is just abso...
I look forward to a real and a rigorous discussion so that we can focus on green jobs and other jobs that make sense.
This means taking away more jobs and then subsidizing a few green jobs in their place.
Few would disagree that the passage of Waxman-Markey would effectively kill any future oil shale production in Colorado.
These jobs will shift overseas to China and spur their economic growth, not ours.
There is some effort to do away from hydraulic fracturing, and it would be devastating.
It would seem to me that it is logical that the drafters of this bill know it is going to cost jobs because they have unemployment benefits ...