Tim Burchett: “I can remember in 1977 there was a TV show I used to like. It was called ``In Search of . . . '' That year I remember…”

“I can remember in 1977 there was a TV show I used to like. It was called ``In Search of . . . '' That year I remember very well because I had to go to school at Bearden Junior High School on Saturdays because of snow days. We used up all of our snow days. The show ``In Search of . . . '' had one episode that was: ``In Search of . . . The Coming Ice Age,'' and that was the talk. We are going into an ice age. Then it was acid rain. Then it was global warming. All these reactionary things that happen to us, all they end up doing is costing us more money and making some advisory group, a bunch of fat cats, rich. Every time we put these environmental regulations on this great country, these unelected bureaucrats get out here and get together, and then they figure out what we are going to do, and guess what? We are the only dadgum country in the world that follows them. We cut a deal with China. They don't honor it. In China, for instance, when they put a new coal-fired plant together, it is our 1950s technology. We follow the rules. No one else does. These unelected bureaucrats fly around in their big jets, they look down their noses at us, and we have to suffer the consequences. Let's talk about the reality here. This is just another boondoggle so we can run for reelection and scare people. The water that we drink and the air that we breathe now is cleaner and safer than it ever has been in my lifetime. Those are the facts. Mr.…”