Point of order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his point of order.

Taking no action isn't working. He is right. And we are going to have to take action.

If you say to them, however, that we are going to try to do all of the above, so we are going to help you burn the coal you have; we are going to help you find the fuels that work for you, but we want to try to help you do it in a cleaner…

It is that simple. You shouldn't hide behind games or trickery to say, well, this is not really a treaty that has to go to the Senate because the targets are merely aspirational. If they are merely aspirational, why are we spending…

Well, your amendment would certainly do that, and I will support that amendment. While I can't support the underlying bill, I can support that amendment because that does make the underlying bill better. If we are going to bind our hands…

It is China. And Russia is probably doing some, too. But China is heavily out there. And they are getting a two-for because the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, want to have power and energy for their people, because they…

Part of what happened was that they danced through a lot of different hoops to try to make sure that they didn't have to have it be a treaty. If they could at least make the argument that it was not a treaty, because they knew they…

It absolutely is a better approach. It really does bother me that we are just handing cash over to these countries. As you said, they don't have transparency. Some of them are known to have corrupt governments, which means that at least a…

What is exciting for the American people, what is exciting for me, I would say to the gentleman, is that we have just mentioned a couple of areas where technology is working, making things better, and reducing our carbon footprint. In our…

I have to respond. I read the legislation, and I am not voting for it. So there.

As you all know, I don't come from an area that has nuclear waste in the southwest section of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Hear, hear, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that we are working on some technology right now that allows us to extract rare earth minerals out of some of our coal deposits to the United States and be able to…

And so there are lots of things we need to worry about in that regard. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman bringing that up today, because what we want to do is have a balanced approach. We want renewables. We want all of the above…

Because the birds don't see the heat, and they fly into it, and they are fried to a crackly crunch.

So when the gentleman started talking about birds, I came back to the mike. We hope science will solve these problems, and that is why we need to have more research and development on all of this. Instead of saying, stop everything, we…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, you know I would like to engage in colloquies and talk about issues.

No. The rest of the world will continue to use these sources. And, in fact, industries that are dependent upon our natural resources--coal, oil, natural gas--well, they will just move to the countries that will let them use it, and it will…

And you know what is interesting about this is, I do represent a coal district, but if we shut down all of this, as we have discussed in the Green New Deal, are the Indians going to stop using coal? Of course not. Are the Chinese going to…

I just have to bring this up: I was meeting with some folks at Virginia Tech recently who are working on this very area. And as a part of the spinoff of the research and the technology they are doing to refine it and to try to get the…

And so while I know they weren't thinking about it or they probably didn't mean to go that far, it shows you that even if we modified it, it won't work for the people. Jobs would be eliminated, jobs will be cut, and we really won't have…

And if you eliminate carbon dioxide--the gentleman is correct--we won't have any plants. If we don't have any plants, oxygen plummets in the atmosphere. And as I told a group of high school students recently, and you know what that means…

This committee had significant concerns about and accordingly extensively studied the navigators program in the previous administration.

if we are going to look at workforce development in a holistic way, we should look at populations that have seen a decline in industry jobs, such as many localities in my district, and we need to make sure that economic development is a…

If we are going to look at workforce development in a holistic way, we should look at populations that have seen a decline in industry jobs, such as many localities in my district, and we need to make sure that economic development is a…

I appreciate all who have been here today giving speeches. The government shutdown is now over, but the crisis continues on the border. About 10 days ago, I was down on the border, and I saw firsthand what was happening down there and…