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June 26, 2009
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Cantor: “This Is The Wrong Bill At The Wrong Time”

“This is the wrong bill at the wrong time. As the Leader says, votes for this bill on the other side will come at a significant cost.” – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Press Conference Remarks
June 26, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCQCWwuLEY

Rep. Eric Cantor: “Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax is wrong for America. It is the wrong bill at the wrong time. It is so far outside the mainstream that I think the public is awakened now and understands there are huge costs and consequences to this bill. There will be millions of jobs lost due to the imposition of a national energy tax on small businesses and working families.

“And frankly, the reason why the bill is so wrong is it represents yet a third attempt to try and reduce carbon emissions in a way that has proven unsuccessful in the past. Most of the industrialized world got together in 1992 in Rio, attempted to put goals out there to reduce carbon emissions in this manner and the result was failure. In 2000, Kyoto occurred, and we all know we’re on a course for significant failure in terms of that goal setting as well and its costing hundreds-of-billions of dollars to the global economy.

“We can do this. We can make the earth a cleaner place. But the way we do it is to reduce the cost of alternative fuels – to make cleaner those fossil fuels at a reduced cost than what we have today. That is simple economics, that’s how we sustain a cleaner environment and promote a green economy.

“This is the wrong bill at the wrong time. As the Leader says, votes for this bill on the other side will come at a significant cost.”

Watch the video HERE