Mar 16, 2009
Congress made the American people wait nearly 30 years to address our immediate energy challenges. Yet you have told the American people they must continue to wait.
Jim Bunning
The Public Record
Jim Bunning is a former United States Senator from Kentucky, serving from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bunning was known for his strong conservative positions and advocacy for fiscal responsibility. Before his political career, he was a professional baseball player, notably a pitcher in Major League Baseball, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. Bunning's tenure in the Senate included a focus on issues such as energy policy and workers' compensation reform, often criticizing the Department of Energy's handling of compensation programs for workers.
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Mar 16, 2009
I have long said that I support clean energy but I support all forms of clean energy.
Mar 16, 2009
At a time when our Nation's energy needs are continuing to grow, the Department of Interior will play a unique role in shaping and administering policies that will develop our domestic resources.
Mar 16, 2009
The draft plan already received a record 120,000 comments from the States, environmental groups, industry, labor groups and members of the public with 87,000 of those comments supporting expanded and expeditious deployment.
Mar 16, 2009
I hope that as a nation we will be able to grow our domestic energy portfolio and develop these resources as opposed to stifling growth through strict federal environmental mandates and climate taxes.
Mar 4, 2009
I am interested in facts. We all give out press releases. Factual numbers and factual data in the press release are not necessarily what the real facts are.
Mar 4, 2009
You will get the biggest 'No' you ever got. I will hold the bill. I will do anything possible to stop you from wasting the taxpayers' money on a lost cause.