[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                                  COAL

  (Mr. BARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, I was recently visiting with my constituents 
in Nicholas County, Kentucky, when I learned about the latest casualty 
in the Obama administration's war on coal. Joy Global, a manufacturer 
of underground mining equipment, operates a plant in neighboring 
Bourbon County. The news had just broken that Joy Global plans to cease 
all operations and manufacturing at that plant. The story of Joy Global 
is timely in light of President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to 
lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
  I wish those who are responsible for the war on coal could have been 
with me that Friday morning. It's easy to sit in Washington and issue 
regulations when you don't have to confront the human cost.
  The Obama administration's war on coal cost more than 3,000 well-
paying coal miner jobs in Kentucky last year. Thousands of families 
potentially went from healthy incomes to food stamps. But this 
administration doesn't appear to care.
  The coal industry supports 19,000 full-time jobs in Kentucky while 
providing our State with the Nation's fourth lowest utility rates. Mr. 
Speaker, it's time the administration put people ahead of its radical 
agenda.

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