mr. scalise: i yile for the parliamentary incarery. mr. waxman: is the debate only on the pending agreement -- amendment or on the larger bill. mr. scalise: i am talking about the amendment, i've got to finish a thought first before we talk specifically about the amendment, but first of all, if you look at what happened on legislation, they tried legislation, the legislation failed. bipartisan vote defeated that legislation. the they came back with regulation. so this proposed regulation is being addressed by our bill, the underlying bill. what this amendment does and the amendment by the gentleman from connecticut proposes to create a loophole to continue to allow e.p.a. to get their nose back under that tent to regulate greenhouse gases. and you can just look at the language to see, it allows that loophole that we're trying to close because first of all, congress has said in a bipartisan fashion, madam chair, congress has said we don't want the e.p.a. imposing the national energy tax that cap and trade would propose. we don't want millio