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Democrats Vote For Another Tax On Americans
June 10, 2010 – Washington, D.C. – Senator John Ensign today voted against passing another tax onto hard-working American families and small businesses when he voted to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing a backdoor national energy tax. More simply stated, these new EPA requirements will raise the price of everything from electricity, to gasoline, to fertilizer, to food on supermarket shelves.
“At a time when Nevadans are continuing to battle against this slumped economy, Democrats are looking for yet another way to tax them,” said Ensign. “We cannot tax and spend our country into recovery; we need to do the exact opposite by cutting spending and instituting tax incentives that encourage job creation and economic growth. The Democrat tax on energy will only continue to hurt struggling small business in my state and across the country, which will do nothing to repair this broken economy.”
Democrats are allowing unelected bureaucrats at the EPA to use the Clean Air Act, a law meant to regulate air pollutants in very small quantities, in order to devise regulations to command-and-control very abundant greenhouse gases. Through these new EPA regulations, small business and big business alike will be forced to face a steep new financial and administrative burden as they are required to obtain new permits and purchase expensive new equipment and technologies.
Senator Murkowski (R-AK) offered the disapproval resolution to stop the EPA from moving forward with this heavy-handed regulation, but it was defeated on a party-line vote.
Ensign Testifies On Importance Of Hoover Dam Legislation For Nevada
June 9, 2010 – Washington, D.C. – Senator John Ensign today testified at a Senate subcommittee on the Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2009, legislation that he introduced with Senator Reid last year.
“Power from the Hoover Dam is allocated to Nevada, Arizona and California and provides 29 million people with a clean, renewable and reliable source of energy,” said Ensign. “Unfortunately, these contracts for power allocation are set to expire in 2017 unless reauthorized. The power that is generated by the Hoover Dam is essential and critical to southern Nevada; that is why I urge my colleagues to support the Hoover Power Allocation Act, which will reauthorize these contracts for another 50 years.”
The Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2009 would reauthorize the power allocations from 2017 to 2067 and would provide Hoover contractors the certainty they need to continue to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to construct, upgrade, operate, maintain and replace equipment as needed to deliver the power. Additionally, the contractors are set to invest an additional $1.6 billion beginning in 2017 if this legislation is enacted.
Watch Senator Ensign’s testimony.
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