[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11960]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  THE HUMAN TOLL OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S WAR ON LOW-COST AMERICAN ENERGY

  (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, this afternoon, I'm heading home, heading 
home to western Pennsylvania. People back home are being negatively 
impacted by President Obama's war on low-cost American energy and all 
the regulations that are emanating from the unelected Federal elites 
here in Washington, D.C. We've got power plants closing back in western 
Pennsylvania, resulting in hundreds of lost jobs. We've got miners with 
middle class incomes also being laid off. We've got truckers and 
shippers jobs also being threatened.
  President Obama's anti-energy agenda hurts all of those folks in 
western Pennsylvania and around the Nation. These hardworking moms and 
dads are losing their jobs, their livelihoods, and their ability to 
support their families and communities. This is the human toll of 
President Obama's war on low-cost American energy. It's a tragedy, and 
it must end.

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