This amendment prohibits any of the funding from being used to carry out environmental justice activities. Let me explain this to you. Environmental justice is nothing more than the synthesis of divisive racial ideology and radical…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the spending reduction account), insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the…

As the designee of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title)…

This amendment prohibits the use of funds to take retaliatory actions against States that disagree with the EPA- mandated pollutant reduction goals that have been imposed upon them by the EPA. Importantly, this amendment would not prevent…

Let me clarify, prohibits the use of funds to take retaliatory actions--retaliatory. We are already working together. We are working with the EPA. As was said, this is a regional partnership and has been a regional partnership. This isn't…

I certainly agree that we need to work with other nations and our neighbors, everybody around the globe. We are living on the same planet, breathing the same air, drinking the same water, but the United States is a sovereign nation, and we…

I don't know about significant delays. We are already experiencing significant delays. All these construction projects take decades to complete. If we are going to just keep doing the same thing, which apparently that is what the…

This amendment prohibits the EPA from using funds for actions pursuant to section 115 of the Clean Air Act. To be clear, section 115 of the Clean Air Act allows the EPA to mandate State emissions levels to whatever level the agency deems…

Two summers ago, the EPA released a regulatory agenda which included the consideration of redesignation of ozone attainment in the Permian Basin. This wholly discretionary action would impose new regulatory burdens, new regulations on the…

This amendment strikes the funding for the Council on Environmental Quality. Now, it sounds lofty and awesome. The Council on Environmental Quality was created by the National Environmental Policy Act in 1969 to advance environmental…

I rise as the designee of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Pfluger). The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: no…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I think I have made my point, and the fact that the gentlewoman is reserving means there is no other point to make, so I am happy to listen. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

I suspect that Representative Pfluger would be aghast at the claim that this is a legislative earmark. There is no money involved in this. By the way, the air quality has continued to improve. Since 1990, ozone concentration has decreased…

I don't know about all Americans. As a matter of fact, many of the communities that I represent are lower income. They are struggling to pay their electricity bills, and I doubt that they have gotten $50 million or part of what the Climate…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 145, line 13, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000)''. Page 226, line 4, after the…

Many have supported this program, but in recent years, it is even more egregious. Recent legislation removed the $25 billion cap on loan authority. While some folks say, well, the loans are all out and we just need to administer them, the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 68, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,500,000)''. Page 81, line 17, after the…

This amendment cuts $35 million from this bill for the Appalachian Regional Commission, lowering the funding level in this bill to $165 million. The IIJA provided the Appalachian Regional Commission with an advanced appropriation of $200…

This actually does reduce the spending. This is actually an amendment that does reduce spending. As far as the FRA is concerned, my goodness, just saying it meets FRA, well, FRA spends more than last year. Every year we spend more than the…

Continue to invest. Continue to invest. It is going to continue unless this amendment passes. We are going to keep throwing good money after bad. We are going to continue to invest in Chinese slave labor. It needs to be understood that the…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. Amendment No. 51 Offered by Mr. Perry The Acting CHAIR. It…

I must disagree. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act, I don't know if anyone's keeping score, but when I go to the grocery store since the Inflation Reduction Act, prices are higher. When I go to the gas station, prices are higher. It…

That might be all well and good, but last year, the commission's inspector general--not Perry, not this Congress, the inspector general identified the massive increase in the commission's funding over recent years as a threat to its…

With all due respect, Pennsylvania can handle itself. We don't need some commission to do our work. We understand where the water from Lake Erie goes, to the Great Lakes. We understand it is complex. I looked at the list, and I have been…