The proposal from Senator Inhofe and Representatives Upton and Whitfield to permanently repeal EPA authority over greenhouse gases is the right way to stop President Obama and unelected bureaucrats from forcing a costly cap-and-trade scheme on American families and businesses. This bill would stop EPA bureaucrats from imposing policies that would make our electricity, gasoline and food more expensive and amount to a massive tax increase on American consumers. It’s time to regulate the regulators and stop unelected bureaucrats from destroying American jobs, harming employers and hurting Virginia families.
McConnell seeks Senate showdown on EPA climate rules
The Hill
By Andrew Restuccia
March 15, 2011
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) moved Tuesday to force a political showdown over Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations on the floor of the Senate.
McConnell introduced an amendment to a small business bill that would permanently block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources like power plants and refineries. The small business bill is currently on the Senate floor.
“These new regulations would destroy jobs at a time when Americans need them most,” McConnell said in a floor statement Tuesday. “And they’d be especially devastating for states like Kentucky and other coal states.”
“They’re attempting to do through regulation what they couldn’t do through legislation, regardless of whether the American people want it or not,” McConnell said. “This is an insult to the millions of Americans who are already struggling to make ends meet or find a job.”
McConnell added that it was his hope “that we will vote to stop this power grab in its tracks.”
The amendment language mirrors a bill introduced in the Senate by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and in the House by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.).
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