[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18213]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ENERGY REGULATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, the Obama administration is trying to 
impose deeply regressive energy regulations that would eliminate good-
paying jobs, punish the poor, and make it even harder for Kentuckians 
to put food on the table. Their effect on the global carbon levels? 
Essentially a rounding error. Their effect on poor and middle-class 
families? Potentially devastating. Yet the deep-pocketed leftwingers 
who increasingly call the shots in the Obama White House don't seem to 
care. Just like with their decision on Keystone last month, the Obama 
administration is putting facts and compassion to the side in order to 
advance their ideological agenda.
  Higher energy bills and lost jobs may be a mere trifle to some on the 
left, but it is a different story for millions of middle-class 
Americans in Kentucky and across the country. Senators from both 
parties are saying that we should be standing up for the middle class 
instead. That is why we have joined together to work toward overturning 
these two-pronged regulations.
  I am happy to report that the bipartisan measures we filed last month 
to overturn these regressive regulations have now been made available 
for consideration by the full Senate. The first measure pertains to 
regulations on existing energy sources, while the second pertains to 
regulations on new sources. Together they represent a comprehensive 
solution.
  Senator Capito has been a leader in this effort, and I thank her for 
her hard work. That hard work will continue as the Senate and House 
both take up the measures and pass them. That is the right thing to do 
for middle-class Kentuckians and middle-class Americans who have 
suffered enough under this administration already.

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