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American Clean Energy And Security Act Of 2009

Floor Speech

Date: June 26, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources

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Mrs. CAPITO. Madam Speaker, at a time when families are already struggling to meet their basic needs, the last thing we need is a new energy tax on all consumers, and that's exactly what this cap-and-trade bill is. It is a national energy tax that will burden consumers, burden businesses, and particularly burden the lower-income families in this country. It picks regional winners and losers, with coal-dependent States like mine, West Virginia, bearing the brunt of this bill.

Under this bill, we will actually be penalized for our lower-cost power and will have to pay more to continue using our greatest resource, coal. We should be innovating towards clean coal and carbon sequestration where we can continue to use our most abundant resource.

We all want cleaner sources of fuel and more efficient energy, but this cap-and-trade bill is not the way forward. This bill is a jobs killer. This bill has real costs for real people. Vote ``no'' on this bill.

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