OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Disapproving a Rule Submitted by the Department of the Interior

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 1, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Environment

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Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in favor of repealing the stream protection rule.

I represent a coal-producing district whose economy has been devastated by the former President's and his renegade of unelected bureaucrats' war on coal.

Last year, a Presidential candidate boasted among a liberal political crowd that she would put a bunch of coal miners out of work. She went on to say that the government would then essentially come in and put those hardworking, out-of-work coal miners on welfare.

Well, Mr. Speaker, my coal miners don't want to be on government welfare. They want the government to get out of their way and let them work.

Because of senseless, onerous regulations like the stream protection rule, the liberals in Washington have succeeded in putting most coal miners out of work. I believe that with the passage of H.J. Res. 38 and a sensible energy policy created and implemented by businesspeople instead of bureaucrats, we can begin to bring coal jobs back to Kentucky and help provide the struggling economies in Kentucky's coal counties.

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