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.

Mr. Chairman, 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…

Mr. Chairman, today I rise to offer an amendment that would prohibit the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development from issuing any new livable or sustainable community grants. While the…

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.

there is nothing funny about it.

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…

these costs will be passed on to the consumers?

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.

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…

we are trying to slow the train wreck down somehow.