[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10944]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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          WE SHOULD DO AWAY WITH OBAMACARE AND THE WAR ON COAL

  (Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I would say that tonight has 
been interesting. We have talked about ObamaCare and we have talked 
about clean air and having these things; yet what we have are two 
different things coming out of the administration.
  On the one hand, approximately 2 weeks ago, the administration 
proposed large, new increases in the regulations on coal. As one of his 
aides said, ``The war on coal is something that we need.'' Obviously, 
coming from southwest Virginia and representing central Appalachia and 
the coalfields there, this is not a good idea.
  Then, as we were about to leave town, the President came out with a 
new plan on ObamaCare, and that was to delay the employer mandate--not 
the individual mandate, but the employer mandate--because they haven't 
been able to make the program work.
  That's not the only thing. On Friday, right after the Fourth of July, 
the President's folks came out with 606 pages of new regulations, and 
in there there was delay, delay, delay because they can't seem to make 
the program work.
  ObamaCare was drafted poorly. How do we think these new regulations 
on coal are going to work? They're going to be drafted just as poorly.
  Mr. Speaker, we should do away with ObamaCare, and we should do away 
with the regulations and the war on coal.

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