e.p.a. since january, 2009. greenhouse gas regulations for cars, and these are e.p.a. numbers, it costs $52 billion. greenhouse gas standards for $144 2017, 2025, 144 -- billion. greenhouse gas standards for trucks, $8 billion. tility mag, $9.6 billion annually. border mac, i could go on and on but i think that that shows that the cost of some of these regulations present serious obstacles to economic growth. so the legislation that we consider tonight is simply a commonsense approach, a way to review the impact of energy-related regulations and -- at the environmental protection agency. al and all this legislation does is -- and all this legislation does is this -- the administrator of the environmental protection agency y not promulgate as final an energy-related rule that is estimated to cost more than $1 billion unless, one, they make a report to congress setting out what the regulation does and, number two, the secretary of energy, working with the federal energy regulatory commission a

e.p.a.'s guidance document broadly interprets this term, broadly interprets it and will give agency employees throughout the country the authority to make case-by-case determinations with virtually no jurisdictional limits whatsoever. i recently asked ms. mccarthy about this issue. she did not detail her views, she would not answer specific questions. the supreme court has ruled several times on the meaning of this jurisdictional term, most recently in this -- in 2006 decision, just a few years ago. arapanos vz u.s. that 4-1 decision, which i think the chair doesn't often see in her state when she was attorney general, not often -- but a 4-1-4 decision, the supreme court held the army corps of engineers overreached by asserting jurisdiction under the clean water act over nonnavigable wetlands in that case. on behalf of the four-member plurality compromised of justices scalia, thomas, and eliteo, they wrote that waters of the united states includes nonnovember igable wetlands only if there is

e.p.a. alone would have to spend $21 billion and hire an additional 23,000 bureaucrats to do this. that's not my figures. that's their figures. so you have to stop and think the cap-and-trade bills cost 4 50bdz -- $400 billion at the level of regulating the he'll mitigators of 25,000 tons or more a year and just imagine what it would be when you drop it to 250 tons. the second thing the president doesn't want to talk about is the fact that it is a unilateral effort. if you passed a regulation in the united states of america, it's going to only affect united states of america. and i've always had a lot of respect for lisa jackson. lisa jackson was the administrator of the e.p.a. under the obama administration. while she is lmb and -- liberal and i'm conservative, she was always honest in her answers. i asked her the question, if we pass by legislation or any other way cap-and-trade in the united states is that going to reduce worldwide co2 emissions? and the answer, her answer was no. because

e.p.a. over the gina mccarthy nomination is economic analysis. by law, e.p.a., like other federal agencies, are supposed to do a cost-benefit analysis before they do a big rule making. so part of their rule making is supposed to be a cost-benefit analysis to see if the rule is justified. in my opinion, that cost-benefit analysis is done in such a way to be laughable in some cases, to be ludicrous. it is designed to reach a particular result, not designed to be an objective cost-benefit analysis. so we wanted e.p.a. to go back to the drawing board. do a fair, do an open-ended cost-benefit analysis not designed to reach a particular conclusion, but just designed to truly objectively compare costs and benefits. as a result of our discussions, e.p.a. has committed to intervene an independent panel of economic exerts with experience in kphoel -- in whole economy modeling and they are going to review the ability to measure full regulatory impacts. that is sort of a bunch of gobbledygook, but that

e.p.a. put out three proposals on coal ash, including regulating coal ash as a hazardous waste. this caused massive uncertainty in the marketplace and created a an unnecessary stigma on the recycling of this product. i have a piece of shingle made and produced by coal ash. as the states agree, as highlighted in a letter from the state of michigan in support of h.r. 2218, enactment would end the regulatory uncertainty that has hindered our efforts to promote the beneficial use of coal and combustion residuals. e.p.a. announced in litigation proceedings recently that it ll not have a final coal ash rule before 2015. the fact they leave the designation on the table even though three decades of science and facts that point the other way that coal ash is not hazardous, it directly is contributing to the loss of current and future recycling. it's not an abstract substance, it's used in an important infrastructure in this country. the american coal ash association informed us that uncertainty in th

the e.p.a. the authority to protect the public should a state fail to enforce these standards. i ask my colleagues to support this legislation. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. chairman, i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from illinois. mr. shimkus: mr. chairman, i'd like to recognize mr. bucshon from indiana, a neighbor across from my congressional district, for one minute. the chair: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for one minute. mr. bucshon: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of this legislation. every single coal mine in the state of indiana is in my congressional district. coal not only provides thousands of jobs for hoosiers but provides over 90% of our state's energy. coal is a vital part of indiana's economy, helping to create -- keep energy prices low and supporting a robust manufacturing sector. i

but as the head of e.p.a.'s air division, she's overseeing the implementation of numerous job-killing regulations. these regulations along with others promulgated by the e.p.a. have had a devastating effect in states like mine. they have helped bring about a depression -- that is depression with a "d" -- in parts of kentucky and parts of central appalachia. there's no reason to expect a course correction if she were to be confirmed as administrator. one assumes she would be expected to care for the president's plan to impose centrally by executive fee at even more disruptive policies, policies similar to those already rejected by democratically controlled congress. as someone sent here to stand up for the people who elected me, i cannot in good conscience support a nominee who would advance more of the same. someone who is not willing to stand up to this administration's war on coal. and, remember, this war talk -- that's not me taking is a; the war on coal is exactly what's needed. that's what one of the white

use a tremendous amount of dispersants and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknown's we had to make the decisions that a series of trade offs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the fisa if you say i would to either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from. day one is to forget about cleave forget about the natural resource the average just for releasing the

committee and e.p.a. has provided extensive information to members of the senate in connection with this nomination. this is the longest the e.p.a. has gone without an administrator. how is this the right thing to do? this is the united states of america. this president deserves to have his people in place. sol would a republican -- so would a republican president. gina mccarthy has a deep understanding that the health and safety of the american people and a growing economy go hand in hand, and she will lead e.p.a. in a manner that is consistent with her past track record of success. so, from my perspective, approving gina mccarthy to head the e.p.a. is a very important step toward protecting the health of our children and future generations, and that is a most sacred obligation. we need her strong bipartisan commonsense approach to lead the e.p.a.. now, it's no great secret that in this last election, both parties were fighting for the votes of women. it was a knock-down, drag-out battle, and the democra

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved use carex it under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of corrected a day into the coal when they decided to do the subsurface injection of a user a robot or to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that it never did for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant deep. the chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. will be shared was a set up to protect e.p.a. . and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of dispersants and the e.p.a. says you've got to cut back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate

four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. will be shared was a set up to protect the pier. and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of this persons and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the fisa if you say i would to either ban or l

use a tremendous amount of this persons in the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so the people back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of trade us and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p. . penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the t.s.a. so if you say i would either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleanup forget about a natural resource to average just for releasing

the e.p.a. and the corps of engineers did not have the authority to regulate nonnavigable waters under the clean air act. now, you might disagree with that supreme court decision. tough luck. hey made the decision. in accordance with this decision, the term navigable waters has long been the phrase used to limit federal intrusion with regards to the clean water act's authority. not navigable waters are currently regulated by the state. everybody that stands ups and talks assumes that if it is a nonnavigable water, that nobody is regulating it. in fact, the states are regulating those things. however, last year the corps of engineers and the e.p.a. issued guidance that would expand the jurisdiction of the clean water act to non-navigable interstate waters, effectively resulting in a massive expansion of the federal government's authority to increase the number of waters subject to the water quality standards including irrigation canals, drainage ditches and other things. deciding how watcher is -

these are the e.p.a.'s figures. and you won't hear him talking about it because he knows it's a losing argument. in fact, the day before the president gave his speech, he had his campaign send out talking points to all of the activists that he has working in his behalf. they told them exactly -- they meaning the white house -- told these people exactly what to talk about and what po to* say and -- what to say and exactly whatnot to say. we recovered this. they found this is the talking points that the president sent out to people so america would be, this is what they would be listening to. i think it is worthwhile for us to go over this right now. on this first chart, you have his overarching three-point strategy. point number one is we have an obligation to act. the memo continues, we have a moral obligation to future generations to leave them a planet that's not pollute and damaged by carbon pollution. now, notice they're not talking about climate change anymore. they're not talking about global warming. the new

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved use carex at under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of corrects a day into the coal when they decided to do the subsurface injection the use of robotic arms to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the goal that it never been for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b. . he would continue to use correct that. will be shared was a set up to protect the peace. and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of dispersants and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a gradu

apple just hired somebody who used to be the head of the e.p.a. so it looks like everybody has to make their payola in order to protect themselves from the fed but getting back to the federal reserve itself it looks like bernanke he's leaving town is it possible that the fed itself is set up for some kind of reorganization hyperinflation is just very. very bad for the government is it possible they plan for another solution maybe the fed being nationalized under control of congress of although i don't think they're going to certainly it's not going to be in it's not in their interest to fund the government's interest to have hyperinflation it's very destabilizing certainly not in our interest the rest of the people of america not in our interest to have the dollar go through weimar like zimbabwe like experience i don't believe they will let it happen i don't think we face that on the other hand we face you know currency controls and price and wage controls and capital controls them and all that sort of thing you know a bet that that may happen whe

to use the words of the e.p.a., quote, e.p.a. believes that part 258 criteria represents a reasonable balance, ensuring the protection of human health and the environment, closed quote. . from the e.p.a. . the opponents of this measure seem to lack a fundamental understanding, mr. speaker. there are jobs at stake here. 316,000 jobs across america. it's really that simple. a compromise is available. anyone who opposes this rule will continue to support the status quo. if we do nothing, coal ash, which is generated every day in 48 of the 50 states, will continue to be disposed of. the status way it's been since 1950's and 1960's. and the unwarranted stigma asocial yeated with recycled material will continue. fortunately, they are finally today, after listening and compromising and working together, there appears to be an emerging consensus to allow for the beneficial recycling of coal ash. and the concerns raised by previous congress has been addressed. mr. speaker, after 33 years of fussing with this issue, it's time to put it to

not only are his e.p.a. power plant regulations prohibitting plants from being constructed, they are imposing massive costs on existing plants and forcing shutdowns. a factor has contributed to their expected closure. senior members have readily acnonled the negative impacts of these policies. for example, former doe secretary jim wood estimated hat up to e.p.a. rules could force -- excuse me. rules could force up to 70 giga watts of coal off line adding, number one, electric rates are going to go up, whether or not construction jobs are create -- i think there are virtually no manufacturing jobs that are likely to be created from the replacement of coal. three, transmission grid stability is likely to emerge both because of the shutdown and because of the intermittentsy of renewables. e.p.a. is just one agency leading the war on coal. discussed the department of the interior's anti-coal regulations that would restrict coal mining instri. incredibly, the president is even attempting to limit the global use o

he's doing it on climate change with e.p.a. regulationings. he's going to be able to name some supreme court picks at the end of his term that. could change people's lives in huge ways. >> and federal reserve chairman. >> and new federal reserve chairman. so a lame duck in terms of the old fashioned work with congress, make a deal. but that may be an outdated moded way of looking at things. gwen: you talk about bipartisan ship, is that dead? >> i'm not sure it's been alive since 2010. divided congress has not lent itself to bipartisanship. if he does want to have any kind of productive legislative efforts in miss second term the white house has got to figure out a way to communicate with the republican-controlled house. and -- >> the biggest thing going forward for the next half of this year is the fight for the control of the senate. it is taking shape. and this is going to shape and affect the final chapters of this administration. this president's term. if republicans would happen to win only six seats and need to pick up six seats they win

and we do the secretary of e.p.a. now, i say to my friend, i don't know why your caucus has such heartburn over things dealing with labor. my friend says that -- i don't know exactly how it is -- left-wing, big-labor bosses. we have the secretary of labor that's being held up. we have three nlrb people being held up. let's try to work our way through that. i would be happy to listen to any way you think we can get through that. if we can, tuesday, we -- if can't, tuesday, we know what's going to happen. mr. wicker: mr. majority leader, is that a yes as to trying to get us together, republicansances democrats, as early as tuesday to see if we can talk about this? mr. reid: i am 45e7 happy to consider that. i have talked to a umin of republican senators. one of them called me at home. i was happy to take the call. said, what happens if cloture is invoked on the people you put forward? well, if that hangars i have no complaints. -- well, if that happens, i have no complaints. i would hope that everyone would learn from t

the spending about e.p.a. in two thousand and eleven the house of representatives voted to chop the environmental protection. agency's budget by twenty seven percent which is fairly astonishing. probably one of the very biggest cuts since richard nixon signed that agency into law in one thousand nine hundred seventy i guess or seventy two and so the significance of this is that a lot of the freshman class of republicans who were elected in two thousand and ten . the vast majority of them seventy five to eighty percent of signed the pledge more than that i think and they all received money from charles and david koch anything pledged to cut the e.p.a. so what and but how does how does cutting the benefit charles do well because there are they are in the many many enters their giant conglomerate one hundred fifteen billion dollars a year sixty thousand employees there are a b m with one of the largest privately held companies on planet earth but or oil and gas interests fossil fuel industry in other words that i

without such directives coming out of the e.p.a. over the last 40 years, such advancements by polluting power plants would never have been voluntarily made. we can transition with incentives and a patchwork approach and compromise. several weeks ago when the president made a major drive on combating climate change, it's too bad he had to bypass congress to do it. as a member of this body, i don't blame him. i'd love to say we here in this chamber could be part of the solution, but i understand why he believes we cannot. since congress has abdicated its desire to pass climate legislation, natural gas has become a panacea for fossil fuel. it's dirt cheap and cleaner, they say, but it's brought about a renaissance of dirty extraction like hydrofracking or xtracting gas from shale and oftentimes neglect and toxic manner. also our nuclear energy can't compete with china's solar energy. china provided over half of the solar panel cells in the u.s. that's over $3.1 billion within our domestic market. $3.1 billion we could be capitalizing o

the e.p.a.'s out-of-control regulatory overreach costs hardworking american taxpayers billions of dollars and thousands of jobs every year and all too often is put into place with a lack of oversite or public input. the energy consumers relief act is an important step in making the e.p.a. accountable to the american people. this bill blocks the implementation of rules that harm the economy and ensure that before the e.p.a. finalizes any rule costing more than $1 billion, it informs congress of the rule's impact on the economy and on energy prices. another important bill, the coal reuse and management act, brings much-needed regulatory certainty to job creators and helps keep energy costs low by taking the power out of the e.p.a.'s hands and returning it to the states where it belongs. these commonsense proposals will help keep energy costs low for american families, protect thousands of good-paying jobs and ultimately ensure the e.p.a.'s accountable to the american people. thank you and i yield m

it was considered by the governor and the e.p.a. regional administrator and everybody, this was a win-win for everyone. she engineered that from her position at air quality there in the e.p.a. one of the other points that should be made about gina mccarthy, gina mccarthy is a woman who has already been approved by the senate. she has been approved in a lopsided vote. she has been doing her job for four years. so what are we doing here? that we're saying that she has to be filibustered, she has to be stopped because they don't like the policies she is going to be putting in place. so it's absolutely outrageous what's happening here, and we need to rein this in, and i agree that senator reid is headed in the right direction to do this. i notice that my colleague, senator patty murray, and leader senator patty murray and our leadership team is here. i would ask that any additional comments that i put -- that i have be put by consent into the record and would applaud her for her work with senator reid, with the leadership team in terms

pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of of concern for human hailed the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that back around is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect not in fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. and then they knew it. was the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the. oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are applied to will in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the y

they don't like e.p.a. because they're afraid e.p.a. is going to crack down on coal plants. just refuse to confirm a new director of e.p.a. even though everybody agrees she's qualified. this is pure political use of the filibuster. same thing about tom perez. so he once championed raising the minimum wage. they don't want to raise the minimum wage so they don't want him as labor secretary. it is going to be interesting to see how that plays out. i want to come back to immigration reform. because i've gone back and forth on this as to whether or not there's going to be a bill. we know the senate passed a bill which i don't think is the best bill. at least it is a bill. and i figured that with whatever the senate did, if the senate really knew that the house would have to move, i'm not sure. if i had to bet right now, i would bet that the house of representatives does nothing and there will be no immigration reform bill. >> you would not be alone in that theory. i don't think you're out to lunch. i think that there are a lot of republicans and a lot of democrats who want to ge

as he is giving the speech yesterday in tennessee on jobs, the new e.p.a. administrator was talking about new jobs and regulations on climate change. this is something they have been doing for four years, and it's running more manufacturing jobs out of the country. he has declared war on the coal industry, literally shutting down coal plants around the country. killing jobs. the keystone pipeline, the president talked about that. with the president's pen today he could create 25,000 new jobs today and he laughs at that like it's some insignificant number. that is just the beginning, and lso a path to getting energy security. every million barrels we get from canada is a million barrels we do not have to get from middle eastern countries who do not like us. if the president was for a sound energy policy he'd get it. he thinks it's some kind of joke. even the labor unions, who are not typically friends with republicans, they support our man that we passed with a big bipartisan vote in the house, like the keystone pipeline. these would create jobs in the priva

commentator and presidential advisor chris matthews from his talk show will and will reilly former e.p.a. administrator so these are top level officials they're not that these are not members there's a sara lee. they're just invited guests so the members are two thousand or so and then they'll invite other thousand people to come over to somebody from the very high at all ends of society from media to education to politics foreign diplomats former heads of state peter talk of the lakeside chads you mentioned and those are going on what are those. well they're. daily speech given by some high level official or corporate official government official. that all the men will go down in here so it's considered as private it's off the record there's no press allowed they're not they're not public speeches so it's considered for a cutting edge of whatever the topic is and what makes the bohemian grove different really than any other mean think tank or gathering of the minds. by the club as is mostly for fun in partying in that sense you know whether you're going to build a burger group or the da

commentator and presidential advisor chris matthews from his talk show will and will reilly former e.p.a. administrator so these are top level officials they're not that these are not members there's a sara lee. they're just invited guests so the members are two thousand or so and then they'll invite other thousand people to come because of they so from the very high at all ends of society from media to education to politics foreign diplomats former heads of state peter talk of the lakeside chads you mentioned and those are going on what are those. well there are daily speech you haven't by some high level official or corporate official government official. that all the men will go down in here so it's considered it's private it's off the record there is no press allowed they're not they're not public speeches so it's considered for a cutting edge of whatever the topic it and what makes the bohemian grove different really than any other mean think tank or gathering of the minds. while the club as is mostly for fun in partying and that sense you know whether you're going to build a burger

and i'm encouraged that e.p.a.'s moving quickly on meaningful standards for power plants. strong power plant standards are an imperative if we're going to avert the worst impacts of climate change. we've got a lot of work to do, mr. speaker, and it's time to get this house headed in the right direction on climate policy. mr. huffman: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from montana seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman from montana is recognized. mr. daines: mr. speaker, i rise today to honor dustin ded for, a 24-year-old montana native who was monday among the 19 hot shot firefighters who recently died while battling a wildfire in arizona. the son of reverend steve and up te deford, dustin grew in the smalltown in montana where he was well known for his joyful spirit, as well as his deep faith in christ. dustin also had a passion for community service at an early age. in fact, he volunteered for the carter county fire department as soon as he turned 18 and continued working as a county firefighter every summer from 07 un