[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3684 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3684

 To prohibit Federal funding of foreign travel by the Administrator of 
 the Environmental Protection Agency until the Agency conducts public 
  listening sessions on rulemaking targeting carbon dioxide emissions 
 from existing power plants in each of the 15 States with the highest 
          percentage of electricity generated by coal in 2012.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2013

      Mrs. Capito (for herself, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Cramer, and Mr. 
 Luetkemeyer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and 
Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit Federal funding of foreign travel by the Administrator of 
 the Environmental Protection Agency until the Agency conducts public 
  listening sessions on rulemaking targeting carbon dioxide emissions 
 from existing power plants in each of the 15 States with the highest 
          percentage of electricity generated by coal in 2012.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Listen to Americans First Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. NO FOREIGN TRAVEL UNTIL PUBLIC LISTENING SESSIONS ARE CONDUCTED 
              IN STATES THAT RELY ON COAL.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be 
obligated or expended for any travel outside of the United States or 
its territories by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency until--
            (1) the Environmental Protection Agency conducts public 
        listening sessions on rulemaking targeting carbon dioxide 
        emissions from existing power plants in each of the 15 States 
        with the highest percentage of electricity generated by coal in 
        2012 (West Virginia, Kentucky, Wyoming, Indiana, Missouri, 
        North Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Colorado, 
        Kansas, Iowa, Montana, and Wisconsin); and
            (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
        Agency certifies to the chairman and ranking member of the 
        Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
        Representatives and the chairman and ranking member of the 
        Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate that 
        the 15 public listening sessions described in paragraph (1) 
        have taken place.
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