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Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011

Floor Speech

By: Rick Berg
By: Rick Berg
Date: April 6, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources

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Mr. Chairman, this bill is a starting point to lowering energy costs. This bill encourages private sector investment and will grow jobs.

North Dakota is a leader in energy development. However, overreaching EPA regulations threaten not only energy producers but consumers as well.

The EPA's efforts to impose a cap-and-trade tax threaten to increase the price of energy for American families. These higher energy costs will also impact small business, threatening them and preventing them from growing the economy and creating jobs.

Our economy is suffering, and heaping more taxes on American families and imposing new regulations that will hurt job creation is not what our country needs to get back on track.

I firmly support the Energy Tax Prevention Act.

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