"So you have had a lot of conversations and you are hearing that they are interested?"
"I hope that this will be the first of many subcommittee hearings that we have working together in trying to make progress on our Nation's energy challenges."
"Thank you for this invitation. I appreciate the opportunity to provide some insight."
"How many have been settled?"
"What, in the collection of this data will allow us to do what? What will it allow us to see?"
"Thank you, Madame Chairman."
"I hope we can find a way to effectively establish regulation transparency and then have regulators who care about their work so that we have a market that works."
"But when you run speculators up from 37 percent of the market to 80 percent of the market, that changes the oil futures market in a very significant way, and not for the better."
"How do we actually stop them from dumping these assets?"
"The new authority would allow us... to freeze their assets."
"I think maybe we could say with some conjecture they should have been using it a little more aggressively given what's transpired."
"So the data collection in this case would have been EIA's responsibility but shared with agencies like FERC is what you're saying."
