Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Listen to Americans First Act of 2013”.
Listen to Americans First Act of 2013
A BILL
To prohibit Federal funding of foreign travel by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency until the Agency conducts public listening sessions on rulemaking targeting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants in each of the 15 States with the highest percentage of electricity generated by coal in 2012.
Sec. 2 No foreign travel until public listening sessions are conducted in States that rely on coal
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be obligated or expended for any travel outside of the United States or its territories by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency until—
the Environmental Protection Agency conducts public listening sessions on rulemaking targeting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants in each of the 15 States with the highest percentage of electricity generated by coal in 2012 (West Virginia, Kentucky, Wyoming, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Montana, and Wisconsin); and
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency certifies to the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate that the 15 public listening sessions described in paragraph (1) have taken place.