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From: Representative Mike Kelly <thomas.qualtere@mail.house.gov>
Date: July 26, 2014 12:32:38 PM CDT
To: bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com
Subject: Representative Mike Kelly's Weekly E-Newsletter
Reply-To: thomas.qualtere@mail.house.gov
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Dear Friends,
Throughout this coming week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finally be holding its nation-wide public hearings on its latest rule for America's power plants. The proposed rule is a harsh new regulation ordered by President Obama that will brutalize our nation's coal industry and needlessly hurt vulnerable Americans, especially in Western Pennsylvania.
Coal -- America's most abundant and affordable energy resource -- will finally have its day in court, and I look forward to spending the entire week making sure the EPA hears our voices.On Monday morning (7/28), I will be delivering a public address in Washington, DC to discuss the dangers of the Obama administration's regulatory war on American energy and what must be done to stop it. The speech will be at the Heritage Foundation -- the world's largest conservative public policy institute -- and be followed by a policy discussion featuring two policy experts in energy economics and environmental science.
For more information about the event and how you can view it live in your home, click here.
On Wednesday (7/30), I'll be speaking at a press conference in front of the U.S. Capitol with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Senate sponsor of our Coal Country Protection Act. Together we will be emphasizing the economic ramifications of the EPA's proposed rule alongside other members of the Congressional Coal Caucus.
At the end of the week on Friday (8/1), I'll be testifying live in-person at the EPA's public hearing in Pittsburgh and proudly representing all of the hardworking men and women who provide our households with the benefits of coal.
Remember: In addition to supporting more than 40,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, coal also provides 40 percent of America's electricity -- more than any other fuel. In fact, the Associated Press has rightly called coal "the workhorse of the U.S. power system" since "it helps keep prices stable and power flowing even when demand spikes."
When federal regulations force mines and power plants to shut down, as is already happening at a historic rate, manufacturing costs rise, employment plummets, and electricity bills skyrocket.
The American people simply cannot afford to pay for President Obama and the EPA's extreme overreach. It must be opposed, and that's what next week is all about.
This fight is not just about protecting coal country but indeed our whole country!
Sincerely,
Rep. Kelly Honors Erie-Based Kanzius Foundation
on House Floor
Rep. Kelly delivered remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday in tribute to the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation of Erie, Pennsylvania, and its founder, John Kanzius.
Excerpts of Rep. Kelly's floor speech:
"I rise today to pay tribute to a truly extraordinary and exceptional American, a man by the name of John Kanzius, and to recognize a major milestone in John's dream to find 'a better way' to treat cancer - that's with the completion of the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation's mission."
"In Erie, Pennsylvania, a guy named John Kanzius recognized that there had to be a better way to treat cancer. John is truly an inspiration, not just to me and to his family, but to the entire country, and especially to the cancer community."
"In 2002, John was diagnosed with terminal leukemia and had undergone countless treatments of toxic chemotherapy. "
"And this was the worst kind of luck that put him on a new path, and a miraculous path, because it gave John the idea that maybe you could use radio waves to kill cancer cells. Now, while John didn't have a medical background, he did understand radio waves, and when he was diagnosed with terminal leukemia in 2002, his knowledge of the deficiency in modern cancer treatment became first-hand."
"But, you know what? It wasn't John's sickness that motivated him. It was the sad and helpless eyes of all those children he would see in the cancer ward when he went in for his chemo. And he would see these kids sitting there, their heads bandaged up, their frail bodies, knowing that they couldn't go outside and play the way other children did. And he looked at that and said, 'There's got to be a better way to treat this horrible disease.' And that's what motivated him."
"Now, I want you to think about something, because ... anybody who's been through this - my own sister died of pancreatic cancer - as you go through that as a person, whether it happens to you or somebody in your family, you start to feel what they're going through. Now, John couldn't sleep at night. And rather than wake Marianne up, you know what he decided to do? One morning at 2 A.M. he got up and he went downstairs. He grabbed some copper wire, some boxes, some antennas, and Marianne's pie pans, and he starts to build a machine. This is just an average, everyday guy who just got it. He understood that technology."
"He was weak and weary from his own cancer, but John continued to work. By the spring of 2004, John was feeling a little better and he started to get the word out about his discovery and he started to raise money for more expansive research."
"Confronted with his own battle and the suffering of so many young people, John Kanzius' can-do attitude kicked in, and he set out to demonstrate that radio waves indeed could kill cancer cells without harming any other tissue - no collateral damage! This endeavor became the mission of the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation in Erie, Pennsylvania."
"Last month, on June 30th, the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation announced that the organization would be closing its doors after raising more than $15 million in donations - a day that John Kanzius had only dreamed about. And why? Because the Kanzius research team are now entering into the next phase by submitting an application to the FDA to initiate human trials to test the possibilities of John's vision of curing and treating cancer."
"The Kanzius Foundation has funded all of the research necessary for the team to demonstrate how the technology works and begin the first phases of these trials, which will target pancreatic and liver cancers - two of the particularly deadly forms of cancer. If successful, the treatment will be a game-changer for so many of these people with these two types of cancer."
"While John is not around see the culmination of his life's work - because he passed away in 2009 at the age of 64 - I don't only trust, I know that John is seeing what's going on today. And I'm so happy to be here, and be able to talk about the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation. And some of the [Foundation's] people are in the Gallery, actually: my good friend Mark Neidig, who up there, is the Executive Director; Board President Maryann Yochim; and D.C. Board member Debra Thornton."
WEEKLY PHOTOS
On Wednesday, Rep. Kelly welcomed leaders of the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation to the U.S. Capitol for his floor speech in honor of John Kanzius.
Pictured: Rep. Kelly with Mark Neidig, Kanzius Foundation Executive Director; Board President Maryann Yochim; and D.C. Board member Debra Thornton
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