[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 23 (Monday, February 14, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                            THE DUST POLICE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the EPA is now going after the farms 
and ranches that feed the American people. They say ranching and 
farming cause dust. Well, no kidding. So out with the dust, and in with 
more regulations and fines.
  Dust has been around since man first tilled the soil with primitive 
plows and herded sheep and cattle in the wide open spaces. The EPA also 
doesn't like the dirt roads used by pickups and tractors that 
crisscross the cattle ranches and farms that are in Texas and in the 
heartland of America, so the Environmental Police Agency is going to 
regulate the dust created by farming and ranching by imposing expensive 
fines on the breadbasket of America. The dust police rule would make it 
more expensive to feed America.
  First it was punishing the domestic energy industry. Now they're 
going after the agriculture industry. Does the EPA wish that we import 
all of our food like we do crude oil? This sounds a little bit un-
American to me. Maybe the EPA needs to just hit the road.
  And that's just the way it is.

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