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| Lamar Alexander |
“This new carbon regulation on existing power plants will drive electricity prices up and drive down job growth in many parts of the country. This is just one more example of the federal government expanding the big, wet blanket of burdensome regulations on our economy that put people out of work and make it harder to find a job. This regulation also bypasses congressional authority – it’s the job of Congress, not unelected bureaucrats, to determine whether and how to regulate carbon dioxide.”
The EPA’s new regulation would require utilities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their existing power plants by 30 percent, below 2005 levels, by 2030. A U.S. Chamber of Commerce study estimated that such a change could result in 224,000 fewer U.S. jobs on average every year through 2030, and force U.S. consumers to pay $289 billion more for electricity through 2030.
Alexander is a member of the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the lead Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development.
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One wonders how Lamar will actually vote...especially if he can get some pork in return.
ReplyDeleteLet's remember that he voted for Eric Holder for Attorney General.
He also voted for Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Oh yes...and he voted for the amnesty bill that passed the US Senate.
He also voted for cloture when the busy-bodies in the US Senate were chomping at the bit to grab guns after a mad man's massacre at Sandy Hook.
And don't forget that he seems to hate coal and has been leading the pack to get an internet sales tax.
What a conservative he is...NOT!
KM