Howard Griffith

It just looks like to me that this administration has an 'all of the above' policy to raise the cost of energy on all of the above.

We need to look at the whole world situation and make sure that we are not destroying American jobs.

One of the problems that we have in my area where we have lost a lot of jobs is that even if we accept some of the policies of Dr. Bivens, the people who are gaining are not Americans.

But you understand that there's always a trade-off, and that sometimes it is--you know, you can't make the world perfect.

The United States has got a job problem, if you all haven't figured that out by now, and that we shouldn't be piling on regulations that are killing jobs.

I think every statistic shows that, and I pick up Mr. McKinley's chart and he showed you the coal power plants that are closing down.

I ask everyone here and across the Nation to pray for those individuals at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, who are currently dealing with the shootings that took place there today and the two people who, regrettably, have passed…

I have been concerned about a number of EPA regulations related to similar things like what happens when you raise the cost of electricity and the people my district can't afford to heat their homes.

I think it is regulating farm dust.

I urge all of my colleagues to join me in supporting the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. I appreciate this opportunity to carry this important legislation, which will protect jobs not only in the Ninth District of Virginia, but across…

We have got to take a look at the role of government.

President Obama is President Bush on steroids.

I thought that is what reauthorization was, that if you ran out of authorization, that was a sunset.

I discovered a 1970 law that says when we take horses off Federal lands, we can't humanely euthanize them.

I have learned here, at least what I have been told, is that if we have a law on the books as a result of these rules, we have to fund that whether we have the money or not.

I think our country needs us working together to find every penny that we can find that would help with our national debt and deficit situation.

The American people deserve to know the answers to a lot of questions. After all, it is their money we are talking about.

But you would agree that any good lawyer has been wrong at some point in time as to what the courts might do, would you not?

But I am correct that that reconsideration process has actually been objected to by certain groups and the courts. Is that not true?

And it is also our job then to review those laws to determine whether or not we believe it in the best interest of the United States and if the public believes that there is something we should do that we should change it which is why the…

When you face extensive unemployment in the regions that I have just mentioned... these are serious matters.

I am trying to do what my constituents want and what I think my constituents need in order to create jobs.

I came off this break doing the Labor Day parade in Covington, which is sponsored by the union there.

So you understand that it is in fact the legislature's job that all of us, as many have already stated, it is our job to go out and listen to our constituents and then we face election each year.

We would like to see evidence that actually shows that these regulations would in fact, not extrapolated theories or models, but would in fact cause the problems.