[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 11568-11569]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        CAP-AND-TRADE EXEMPTIONS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, in the past, my colleagues on the other side 
of the aisle railed against the Bush administration for an energy 
policy they say was written by energy lobbyists and rewarded oil and 
gas industry companies. Now that they control both the Congress and the 
White House, that type of behavior which they railed against now seems 
to be acceptable.
  The cap-and-trade legislation being considered in the Energy and 
Commerce Committee is based on a blueprint of a plan put forward by a 
coalition of outside groups called USCAP.

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USCAP claims to favor government regulation of greenhouse gasses; yet, 
one of the leading members of the group will receive a generous 
exemption in the legislation to build new coal power plants without the 
onerous restrictions that will prevent others from building.
  The majority are allowing industry members to write legislation that 
benefits them in exchange for supporting their cap-and-tax plan that 
will raise energy prices for all Americans. That is hypocritical and 
it's unethical.

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