[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE GLOBAL WARMING BILL

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, you can be assured of a couple things: The 
global warming bill reportedly that will be taken up next week in the 
Energy and Commerce Committee will raise energy costs and create 
massive job losses.
  How do I know this? It happened in southern Illinois in 1992, where 
we lost 14,000 coal miner jobs. The State of Ohio lost 35,000 coal 
miner jobs.
  Why in the world in this economy would we make it more difficult to 
compete in the international arena by raising energy costs?
  I hope my Democratic friends are ready to answer that question.

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