[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8733]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          VERA, VOICE OF TEXAS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, each month I receive thousands of 
emails from my neighbors in Texas about issues that are important to 
them. Vera from Humble, Texas, wrote me this:

       American manufacturers do their part to improve the 
     environment, and United States manufacturing is the leader in 
     developing clean technologies. Policymakers should look very 
     cautiously at new government programs that would expand 
     environmental rules or impose entirely new regulatory 
     regimes. The EPA's actions, such as those on ozone standards, 
     chemical action plans, and cement emission regulations will 
     increase costs, destroy jobs, and undermine U.S. 
     manufacturers' ability to compete in the global marketplace. 
     Our position and our prosperity will not hold if American 
     manufacturing continues to be the victim of overregulation. 
     Congress must commit to policies that ensure America's 
     ability to compete and to succeed.

  Mr. Speaker, Vera is right. Regulators need to quit putting American 
businesses out of business because of unnecessary, expensive 
overregulation.
  And that's just the way it is.

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