[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 86 (Friday, June 8, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H3664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          VERA, VOICE OF TEXAS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, each month I receive thousands of 
emails from my neighbors in Texas about issues that are important to 
them. Vera from Humble, Texas, wrote me this:
  ``American manufacturers do their part to improve the environment, 
and United States manufacturing is the leader in developing clean 
technologies. Policymakers should look very cautiously at new 
government programs that would expand environmental rules or impose 
entirely new regulatory regimes. The EPA's actions, such as those on 
ozone standards, chemical action plans, and cement emission regulations 
will increase costs, destroy jobs, and undermine U.S. manufacturers' 
ability to compete in the global marketplace. Our position and our 
prosperity will not hold if American manufacturing continues to be the 
victim of overregulation. Congress must commit to policies that ensure 
America's ability to compete and to succeed.''
  Mr. Speaker, Vera is right. Regulators need to quit putting American 
businesses out of business because of unnecessary, expensive 
overregulation.
  And that's just the way it is.

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