[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 38 (Thursday, March 8, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H1276-H1277]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT

  (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. Madam Speaker, it's worse than we thought. 
President Obama and his activist Interior Department are threatening an 
estimated 100,000 direct and indirect coal jobs, according to a new 
study. This is from the administration's proposed rewrite of the stream 
buffer zone rule that would cut coal production in half. Instead of 
developing one of America's most abundant resources, the Obama 
administration chooses to attack the coal industry and the jobs that go 
with it and would rather put the American taxpayer on the hook for 
failed companies like Solyndra.
  This is unacceptable. We need solutions and real growth to create 
jobs through energy development, because the President's current 
policies continue to hurt America and are making our economy worse. 
House Republicans have a plan to stop President Obama's attack on coal. 
It's part of the plan for America's job creators that's being

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blocked by President Obama and Senate Democrats. This failure of 
leadership is irresponsible, and it needs to stop.

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