[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 31909]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                EPA IS DESTROYING THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Speaker, earlier last week, the EPA announced that 
carbon dioxide is a health hazard and a pollutant that should be 
regulated under the Clean Air Act. That means that you and I are 
polluting simply by breathing.
  Make no mistake about it, the timing of this announcement was 
intentional. By issuing the ruling last week, the EPA is attempting to 
gloss over the inconvenient truth of thousands of emails by climate 
researchers revealing ways they manipulated or hid evidence that 
disproves their theories of climate change. Furthermore, the ruling is 
an attempt to avoid the fact that the American people are opposed to 
this job-killing cap-and-tax bill that has been stalled in the Senate. 
Inconveniently, that leaves negotiators in Copenhagen unable to broker 
a binding agreement.
  The EPA is destroying the democratic process and rushing in to 
legislate where Congress refuses to tread. Will the American people 
support the administration's latest effort to regulate even more 
private companies out of business? I wouldn't hold my breath.

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