[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            FAIR BURDENS ACT

  (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, the mass production of cheap, reliable 
energy has powered the greatest expansion of wealth and opportunity in 
human history. It has resulted in higher living standards and improved 
health in the United States and around the globe.
  Notwithstanding this too often ignored reality, the President wants 
to commit the United States to even more stringent, anti-energy 
regulations than those currently in place. The President's Clean Power 
Plan alone is expected to increase our energy prices by nearly $300 
billion over the next 15 years and reduce annual job creation by over 
200,000.
  According to the EPA's only models, the impact of all of these rules 
on global temperature increases will be near zero.
  The United States cannot effect change alone. China, the world's 
largest polluter, and other top emitters of global CO2 
emissions need to come to the table too.
  That is why, today, I introduced the Fighting Against Imbalanced 
Regulatory Burdens Act, or H.R. 4169. This bill will prevent the EPA 
from imposing any restrictions on CO2 emissions from power 
plants unless countries responsible for 80 percent of non-U.S. 
emissions have enacted similarly stringent policies.
  I encourage my colleagues to support me in this effort.
  

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