Calvert to EPA chief: Show me the money
February 26, 2010
By PE Politics on February 24, 2010 12:54 PM
Inland Rep. Ken Calvert locked horns with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson this afternoon, during a budget hearing in Washington.
The hearing, before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, featured testimony from Jackson, who was on hand to defend her agency's proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
Calvert, R-Corona, took the opportunity to attack the Obama administration's proposal for new regulations on greenhouse gases. Already, he said, California's own regulations are prompting businesses to pack up shop in the Golden State and head to Texas or other states "where the regulatory environment is less obscene."
"Is that a preview of what's going to happen to the country, if EPA continues down this regulatory path?" Calvert asked.
Jackson responded by noting that California is seeing job growth in some alternative energy industries as a result of the push away from fossil fuels.
"We have 12 percent unemployment in the state of California," Calvert lashed back.
He then launched into a series of questions about the agency's delegation to the international global warming talks held in Copenhagen late last year. Pointing to a CBS news report indicating that more than $1 million was spent on the trip, Calvert asked Jackson what the total expenditures were.
When Jackson replied that she didn't know, Calvert — noting that members of Congress are required to make such information public — asked Jackson to do the same.
"We'll get them to you," Jackson said.
Inland Rep. Ken Calvert locked horns with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson this afternoon, during a budget hearing in Washington.
The hearing, before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, featured testimony from Jackson, who was on hand to defend her agency's proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
Calvert, R-Corona, took the opportunity to attack the Obama administration's proposal for new regulations on greenhouse gases. Already, he said, California's own regulations are prompting businesses to pack up shop in the Golden State and head to Texas or other states "where the regulatory environment is less obscene."
"Is that a preview of what's going to happen to the country, if EPA continues down this regulatory path?" Calvert asked.
Jackson responded by noting that California is seeing job growth in some alternative energy industries as a result of the push away from fossil fuels.
"We have 12 percent unemployment in the state of California," Calvert lashed back.
He then launched into a series of questions about the agency's delegation to the international global warming talks held in Copenhagen late last year. Pointing to a CBS news report indicating that more than $1 million was spent on the trip, Calvert asked Jackson what the total expenditures were.
When Jackson replied that she didn't know, Calvert — noting that members of Congress are required to make such information public — asked Jackson to do the same.
"We'll get them to you," Jackson said.