[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 9 (Monday, January 23, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H85-H86]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  OBAMA'S ACTIVIST EPA MUST BE STOPPED

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, here is the simple truth: the Obama 
administration is driven by a far left liberal ideology rather than the 
facts. This administration says it wants to put America back to work, 
but through its policies is doing the exact opposite. For example, 
because of the EPA's new train wreck of regulation, up to 160 direct 
jobs will be lost with the accelerated closure of Beverly, Ohio's 
Muskingum coal-fired power plant.

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  This train wreck of regulation is the most expensive regulation that 
the EPA has ever mandated. These costs will ultimately be passed on to 
hardworking families in the form of higher utility rates. This new 
disastrous regulation will also cost southern Ohio many indirect jobs 
related to the coal industry. No matter how you look at it, the 
President has declared war on the coal industry and the jobs that go 
with it.
  It is time for this administration to get serious about creating real 
jobs, creating an energy policy that puts America first, and ending its 
war on coal.

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