[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10414]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE WAR ON COAL

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor to share a quote 
with my colleagues to make them aware of this. It is from Daniel 
Schrag. He is the White House adviser on climate change, and this was 
reported in The New York Times. Quite frankly, I find this quote 
baffling. Here it is:

       The one thing the President really needs to do now is to 
     begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal 
     plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say that 
     we're having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal 
     is exactly what's needed.

  That was Mr. Schrag, the White House adviser on climate change.
  Mr. Speaker, I highlight this with my colleagues in this House right 
now because a war on coal is a war on jobs; a war on jobs, is a war on 
the American worker.
  I have never met anybody that wants to pay more for electric power 
generation, but the actions of this administration, the actions of the 
President choosing to circumvent Congress and implement these is 
costing us 500,000 jobs.

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