House Passes Incinerator Bill That Will Kill Thousands

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WASHINGTON -- Less than an hour after passing the so-called Protect Life Act to guard the unborn, the House of Representatives passed a bill that the EPA warns will kill thousands of people prematurely.

House Republicans argued that the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 was a "timeout" from long-delayed regulations aimed at mercury that threatened to raise costs on boiler operators and incinerators. But the measure also exempts smaller burning facilities from any regulation at all.

The EPA estimated that the bill, H.R. 2250, would allow 20,000 people to die prematurely from pollution.

But for the GOP, preserving the jobs was more important.

“The House Republican jobs agenda is focused on removing the uncertainty hampering small businesses through policies that promote private sector growth," said House GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.). "Small businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups are the engine of job creation in America, and Washington should not be working to make it more costly and more difficult for them to do business."

He added that the proposed boiler regulations "could raise compliance costs, take away billions of dollars in capital annually and put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk."

The National Republican Congressional Committee immediately began campaigning on the vote, attacking Democrats who opposed the bill, saying they voted to "endanger over 300,000 American jobs." The committee's press release cited a report prepared for the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/house-passes-incinerator-bill-epa_n_1010044.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

There are too many people anyway. More electricity for me!

Edited October 14, 2011 by Gary and Alla

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EPA - serving the mentally ill liberal mind since 1970.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

But for the GOP, preserving the jobs was more important.

Definitely not a concern for Dems.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Kill them all. Let God sort them out.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Kill them all. Let God sort them out.

Let BY sort them out.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Killing people DOES free up jobs.

Have we discovered a new job search strategy lol

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Killing people DOES free up jobs.

Have we discovered a new job search strategy lol

Something more, um, targeted may be better for the job search function. Could this just be an Obama jobs program in cognito? I mean, he doesn't have anything else after the Dems killed off his jobs bill. Maybe he is in secret colusion with the Repubs?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Nobody will have a job by next summer. The socialist spring is coming.

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Nobody will have a job by next summer. The socialist spring is coming.

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WASHINGTON -- Less than an hour after passing the so-called Protect Life Act to guard the unborn, the House of Representatives passed a bill that the EPA warns will kill thousands of people prematurely.

Interesting that none of the comments int this thread address the stunning insensitivity and hypocrisy of H.R 358. From the link in the OP, above ---

Gotta love these "personal freedom and individual liberty" types who are so against government regulation of what THEY can spend THEIR money on, but are so quick to regulate what others get to spend their money on. Check.

H.R. 358, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.), goes beyond the issue of taxpayer dollars to place actual limits on the way a woman spends her own money.

Protecting life? Hah. As long as that life is the unborn, it's protected. The mother? ** the mother. Let'er die. Check.

"Congress has passed refusal laws before, but it's never blatantly tried to override emergency care protections," said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. "We've heard proponents of this bill say that women don't need emergency abortion care, but that is really just willful blindness to the facts."

According to the American Journal of Public Health, Catholic hospitals already have a years-long history of ignoring the emergency care law to avoid performing abortions. In late 2009, an Arizona bishop excommunicated a nun who authorized an abortion procedure for a woman who otherwise might have died of pulmonary hypertension at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix.

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said she personally faced a situation in which an abortion was medically necessary.

"I was pregnant, I was miscarrying, I was bleeding," she said on the House floor Thursday. "If I had to go from one hospital to the next trying to find one emergency room that would take me in, who knows if I would even be here today. What my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are trying to do is misogynist."

Despite a strong showing in the House, the bill is unlikely to pass in the Democrat-controlled Senate, and the White House said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama will veto the legislation if it ever reaches his desk.

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Killing people DOES free up jobs.

Also creates jobs. They don't die instantly - they get sick first, creating jobs in the medical/healthcare industry.

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the House of Representatives on Thursday passed the so-called Protect Life Act, which prohibits women from buying health insurance plans that cover abortion under the Affordable Care Act and makes it legal for hospitals to deny abortions to pregnant women with life-threatening conditions.

The scary part is these women that are denied when their life is on the line - they had no intentions of getting an abortion. They didn't get an abortion in the first 6 months - never planned on it.

All of a sudden they are about to die and their unborn child is guaranteed to be born dead anyway - and then they will be denied at that point?

[**quote] Last fall, Danielle and Robb Deaver of Grand Island, Neb., found that their state's new law intruded in a wrenching personal decision. Ms. Deaver, 35, a registered nurse, was pregnant with a daughter in a wanted pregnancy, she said. She and her husband were devastated when her water broke at 22 weeks and her amniotic fluid did not rebuild.

Her doctors said that the lung and limb development of the fetus had stopped, that it had a remote chance of being born alive or able to breathe, and that she faced a chance of serious infection.

In what might have been a routine if painful choice in the past, Ms. Deaver and her husband decided to seek induced labor rather than wait for the fetus to die or emerge. But inducing labor, if it is not to save the life of the fetus, is legally defined as abortion, and doctors and hospital lawyers concluded that the procedure would be illegal under Nebraska's new law.

After 10 days of frustration and anguish, Ms. Deaver went into labor naturally; the baby died within 15 minutes and Ms. Deaver had to be treated with intravenous antibiotics for an infection that developed.

Ms. Deaver said she got angry only after the grief had settled. "This should have been a private decision, made between me, my husband and my doctor," she said in a telephone interview.

Based on current knowledge, medical organizations generally reject the notion that a fetus can feel pain before 24 weeks. "The suggestion that a fetus at 20 weeks can feel pain is inconsistent with the biological evidence," said Dr. David A. Grimes, a prominent researcher and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. "To suggest that pain can be perceived without a cerebral cortex is also inconsistent with the definition of pain." [/**quote]

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