[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14538-14539]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               BURDENSOME REGULATIONS STIFLE JOB CREATION

  (Ms. JENKINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, to spur job creation in this country, we 
must remove burdensome regulations stifling our job creators. The EPA's 
Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or MACT rule, is set to crush 
our cement manufacturers.
  Eastern Kansas has three cement manufacturers who employ thousands. I 
recently toured plants at Monarch Cement in Humboldt, Ashgrove Cement 
in Chanute, and LaFarge Cement in Fredonia, and heard a similar story 
from all three. They have the revenue stream and the desire to hire 
more Kansans, but the cost of complying with government regulations, 
like the cement MACT, restrict their ability to do so.
  The EPA shouldn't be implementing regulations that do more economic

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damage than they achieve in environmental good. I hope the EPA will 
take this opportunity to reform their rules and be part of the solution 
rather than the problem. Let's end overregulation and get Americans 
back to work.

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