[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 107 (Thursday, July 10, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H6042]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    WAGING WAR ON COLSTRIP, MONTANA

  (Mr. DAINES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAINES. Mr. Speaker, Colstrip, Montana, is a town that runs on 
coal. Hundreds of hardworking Montanans depend on jobs in Colstrip's 
coal-fired power plant and its coal mines to provide for their 
families, but one anticoal energy consultant said that Montanans 
``should plan for life without Colstrip,'' due, in part, to job-killing 
regulations proposed by the Obama administration.
  EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy recently met with a group of Democrat 
Senators who commended the Agency's efforts on these emissions rules.
  I urge Administrator McCarthy to get out of Washington, D.C., and 
speak with the Montana families who will be directly and negatively 
affected by these regulations and to explain to them why the Obama 
administration is waging a war on their livelihoods and their town. He 
is waging a war on the middle class.

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