Howard Griffith

What happens when people cannot afford to heat their homes?

I will tell you that I am very concerned.

Simply put, coal powers America.

Burdensome and unreasonable regulations that are hurting the American economy and hurting American jobs.

When we have new regulations, no matter how well intentioned and how much they might save somebody money, when you add $1,000 more to the cost of a car by 2016 and a total by $3,000 more by 2025, you are basically saying that a lot of…

My people back home tell me that in the cold winter, the program runs out of money about mid February, and people are cold.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

There is a bumper sticker out there that says if you think coal is ugly, wait until you see poverty.

Yes, you could make my son's life a whole lot better if you tore down every tree in the United States of America and the world, but that obviously is ridiculous.

I would submit that what the EPA is now trying to do to these gentlemen trying to produce jobs is just as ridiculous

We are trying to slow the train wreck down somehow.

There is nothing funny about it.

The consumers who get hit the hardest are in fact the poor, the working poor, and the elderly?

My experience also coming from coal country is is that coal is under assault and that it is driving up electric prices just as Candidate Obama had promised.

Trillions of dollars that will be passed on to the consumers, which will disproportionately hurt the working class, the poor, the middle class, and the elderly.

These costs will be passed on to the consumers?

Would you also agree with me that when the President said, 'because I am capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit…

But if we put such huge pressures on American industries that they take their jobs to these other parts of the world, wouldn't you agree with me that intuitively, we are actually making the problem worse and that what we ought to be…

But because of the power plants that are run by coal that we have already seen that are shutting down, et cetera, is the reason that you made those statements and that you think there are going to be more 202 orders is because of some of…

When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, you know, under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

But when the President has more flexibility, if we believe his words, and we believe his words from his last campaign, don't you anticipate that he is going to make the costs rise on the use of coal and even natural gas, because they are…

And so would I be correct in believing that by not allowing the United States and Canada to expand our use of our natural resources, we may in fact be creating a greater problem worldwide with pollution than if we are allowed to use with…

So you would generally agree with me that we probably have greater than 2 percent if only we would use our resources, is that correct?

Well, I am not sure I would go there, especially as an American. I don't want to accuse you of being too Canadian.

Well, it is your safety program, Honorable Member, and it will be a pipeline built by Americans, supervised by Americans and made safe by Americans.