you are seeing the american farm bureau come out yesterday against the bill could the american petroleum institute is against the bill could some trade groups are fighting the bill. it a lot of conservative groups have a lot of skeptics on the global warming issue. they are trying to stop the bill from moving forward. >> [unintelligible] >> he is on board. he signed up a few days ago that really jolted this debate. we started this week not knowing if the bill was going to reach the floor this week. last weekend, the staff was working hours and hours into the weekend. they came back on monday and tuesday and wrapped up an agreement on a number of key issues. probably the biggest two or three was dealing with the free allowances that will be given out to electrical utility industry. they ended up getting 0.5% that was distributed. another thing that was wanted -- the department of agriculture will be in charge of the offset. that is important for collin peterson because he thinks the fda is more in tune with the farmers of america. the program will pay farmers and landowners to do environmentally fr

you're seeing the american farm bureau came out yesterday against the bill. the american petroleum institute is against the bill. so some of the bigger trade groups are fighting this bill. a lot of the conservative groups you definitely have a large group of skeptics on the sides of global warming who don't believe that climate change is an issue and they're trying to stop this bill from moving forward. >> is agriculture committee chairman collin peterson onboard? >> he is onboard. he signed up about three days ago in a huge agreement that really jolted this debate forward. we started this week not knowing if this bill was going to reach the floor this week. and over last weekend, staff had kind of been just working hours and hours and hours into the weekend when they came back on monday and tuesday and actually wrapped up an agreement on a number of key issues that the farm state chairman from minnesota, collin peterson had been fighting for, probably the biggest two or three were dealing with the free allowances that are going to be given out to the electrical utility industry. and collin

however, i recently received a letter from the american petroleum institute expressing concern that this legislation could add as much as 77 cents to each gallon of gasoline. very simply, this legislation means that every american business consumer will pay more for their fuels, to heat their homes and to purchase everyday goods. the facts are clear, nancy pelosi's national energy tax will kill american jobs, will raise prices on hardworking americans and do little to clean up our environment. i encourage a no vote on this locked down rule and a no vote on this legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves his time. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. matsui: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, a member of the rules committee, my colleague, mr. mcgovern. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for two minutes. mr. mcgovern: thank you. and i thank the gentlelady from california for yielding to me. madam speaker, i stand here today in support of

journals will publish an article about the pre-analysis of benzene studies done for the american petroleum institute. the only reason to publish a 120 page article is to say look how impressive this is. we don't have rules that cover different journals and what his forces while the leading medical journals require you to say who paid for the study and what relationship you had to the people, the regulatory agencies don't have that same requirement, so a chemical company can pay for a study in haven't hidden as to pays for it, they can publish it in the journal and then they can send it to epa or the safety and health administration without ever having to embellish or pay for it. >> let's go back here and then we will come up here. >> melissa goldstein. i suspect that many of these scientists perhaps most going to industry thinking that they are going to do the good fight from the inside to try to work from within. i am wondering what you think about how we can parse that could work out. i think even the one of the studies you should came up with it validated response, the chromium industry but it go

the american petroleum institute reports that the cost impacts of h.r. 2454 could be as much as 77 cents per gallon for gasoline, 83 cents per gallon of jet fuel and 88 cents for diesel fuel. the heritage foundation has estimated as a result of these increased prices, the average household will cut consumption of gasoline by 15%, but forcing a family of four to pay at least $600 more in 2012. it's going to be a huge impact. it's also going to unfairly target rural america. rural residents spend 58% more on fuel and travel 25% farther to get to work than americans living in urban areas. farm income would drop as a result of h.r. 2454, according to a heritage foundation study. $8 billion in 2012. $25 billion in 2024. and over $50 billion in 2035. decreases of 28%, 60% and 94% respectively. and more importantly, 25% of u.s. farm cash receipts come from agricultural imports. u.s. farmers would be at a severe disadvantage compared to farmers in nations which do not have a cap and tax system and correspondingly high input costs. over 100 state and agricultural groups oppose the cap and tax bil

the american petroleum institute has talked about gas prices going up stunningly, and diesel prices, which means trucking costs. the cost of this legislation, i think the caller is exactly right. in the future, as you discussed with your correspondent, it is not clear. i think this bill will die in the senate. i think the senate will not impose these kinds of costs, stunning costs, on the american and economy at this point in time. host: much here on our independent line, roger from norman, " oregon. caller: norman, oklahoma, ma'am. host: i am sorry. caller: i am a republican schoolteacher. this cap and a trade bill is going to raise taxes, and basically what is going to happen is our school is then going to have to pay huge energy costs. we already use -- we are doing everything we can to save energy, but it is going to raise it up so badly that then we are going to have to look at how many teachers do we have, we are going to have to get rid of teachers now oc. they're paying all these people money, and before you know it, we are cleaning our own rooms and we are -- people are out o