mr. rothman: it has resulted in higher -- mr. rothfus: it has resulted in higher living standards and improved health. notwithstanding this too often ignored reality, the president wants to commit the united states to even more stringent anti-energy regulations than those currently in place. the president's clean power plan alone is expected to increase our energy prices by nearly $300 billion over the next 15 years, and reduce annual job creation by over 200,000. according to the e.p.a.'s own models, the impact of all these rules on global temperature increase will be near zero. the united states cannot affect change alone. china, the world's largest polluter, and other top emitters of global co-2 emissions, need to come to the table too. that's why today i introduced the fighting against imbalanced regulatory burdens act, or h.r. 4169. this would prevent the e.p.a. from imposing any restrictions on co-2 emissions from power plants unless countries responsible for 80% of non-u.s. emissions have enacted similarly stringent polici