I think you also reported that just the mercury utility MACT rules would cost about $21 billion a year and 183,000 jobs a year.

we are allowing the Chinese to grow their economy while retarding our economy by not using our clean coal technology.

It also will cause our electric rates to go up by 10 to 20 percent in most of the country.

A lot of what we have been doing has been ignoring coal and its potential as a major resource in this country.

I think we have to use all of our energy resources to develop a plan long term.

So this is of great concern in my area because we have railroads, coal and utility companies.

That retirement of coal power plants by 2016, we are going to be retiring 27 gigawatts.

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I would like to know what kind of due diligence the FDA has the authority to do?

I agree with Mr. Waxman when he said that he would have made the assumption...

We have 1,415 people who have to worry about whether or not they are going to get the disease.

I certainly hope there are, and I hope that we can get some answers on why and what we need to do.

It is going to be very difficult to get legislation through normally, even though this is a very serious problem.

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.

These were not our compounding. This was not your small compounding pharmacy. These were, in fact, manufacturers.

What do you all do to find out if somebody is manufacturing illegally, because that is what I think we have here?

we have numerous requirements coming in and every time we turn around there is a rate increase.

the consumer side of this equation is often left out.

I believe in all of the above. I believe in trying to make sure that we have everything on the table.

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.

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.

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.

But, you know, we are on the frontlines of that. We lost another 620 jobs just last week that are idled.

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…