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Politics should not trump the law. Read more »

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Congress must focus on policies that create jobs, not obstacles. Read more »

Yet again, this Congress is cleaning up after last year’s Lame Duck Congress. Read more »

From trucking to manufacturing, and from mining to local government, the negative effects of high energy prices are being felt across the board. In February alone, the price per gallon of unleaded gasoline rose by 12 cents. Read more »

The House voted for something new in Washington – unprecedented spending cuts. Keeping in step with the Pledge to America, House Republicans put forth a plan to cut more than $100 billion in spending from the President Obama’s proposed FY2011 budget. Read more »

Amendment 109 is a time-out on the EPA. The EPA and its guidelines for the water quality coming out of mines issued on April 1, 2010 came up with a conductivity test – a test which did not go through the Administrative Procedures Act; a test which is relying on science, which is not yet fully accounted for or reliable Read more »

Congress has the responsibility to legislate, not unelected bureaucrats. Today we won a victory by the concession of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. She stated that the EPA would not create a cap and trade program for CO2 under the Clean Air Act. Read more »

Last week, 14 of my colleagues joined me in sending a letter to Chairman Mica of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which has direct jurisdictional authority over the Clean Water Act. Read more »

Amazingly, just one day after President Obama’s call for job creation and economic growth, new federal regulations are threatening the very future of the coal industry in America. Read more »