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Howard Morgan Griffith is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district since January 5, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Griffith has focused on issues such as healthcare, energy, and economic development during his time in office. He has been an advocate for rural communities and has worked on legislation aimed at supporting local economies in Virginia. Griffith previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates before his election to Congress.
`` . . . to provide and maintain a navy; to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions…
I am deeply troubled by what has happened in this case and with NECC, and if there were actions that could have been taken at an earlier time to prevent it, I would wish that that were so.
I agree with Mr. Waxman when he said that he would have made the assumption...
It is going to be very difficult to get legislation through normally, even though this is a very serious problem.
I certainly hope there are, and I hope that we can get some answers on why and what we need to do.
What do you all do to find out if somebody is manufacturing illegally, because that is what I think we have here?
These were not our compounding. This was not your small compounding pharmacy. These were, in fact, manufacturers.
We have 1,415 people who have to worry about whether or not they are going to get the disease.
I would like to know what kind of due diligence the FDA has the authority to do?
We have numerous requirements coming in and every time we turn around there is a rate increase.
If we continue to throw more regulations on and more regulations on like wet blankets on the fire of enterprise, we will be doing our Nation a disservice.
I believe in all of the above. I believe in trying to make sure that we have everything on the table.
If we choose to use the God-given resources, the natural things that are here, the energy sources that we have, we can remain the number one nation economically in the world for many, many years to come.
But, you know, we are on the frontlines of that. We lost another 620 jobs just last week that are idled.
We think we are sending jobs with so many different regulations coming from so many different parts of the EPA and other agencies at one time and we are actually sending a lot of jobs overseas.
I see this all the time where it appears that the EPA is either making others spend a lot of money or they are spending money and yet we could take that money and use it for something that really matters like the cookstoves and do things…
If we keep raising the cost of electricity, don't you think that will cause some concern or some diminution in the advantages of going to an electric car?
So to be putting our money on algae at this point, although it certainly should be researched, would be a foolish bet for the next 15 or 20 years.
Sleepless nights for Saudi sheiks. In my part of the world, you give Saudi sheiks sleepless nights by looking at turning coal into gas.
What sometimes is forgotten is that if we make our energy costs so high by unreasonable regulations, that a company has to send their jobs--either they close down and somebody else in another country starts producing that product, or they…
In reality, the Clean Air Act calls for that 250 ton standard and they have unilaterally on their own changed the law.
It was not the members of Congress who made that decision, 250 tons was the law that they wrote.
Am I interpreting you correctly that while a mining company might have had the right to extract coal, there is nothing in that original permit that allows somebody to put carbon back into the ground?
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