I am glad that Obama is gone and the war on fossil fuels is officially over, I hope.

The mismanagement of the RFS has hurt every party involved.

We are a farm State. We are a rural State, Oklahoma, and in Shattuck I can remember a guy, and, John, he had tears in his eyes, and he was talking about how his farm has been in their family for so many generations and all that, but they…

Either we make it so that companies and investors want to invest here and want to create jobs here, or we have failed.

It is an immoral tax, we have already paid money on that, and all that.

I'm glad to hear you say that your observation is that this Committee has a reputation of getting things done and avoiding some of the unnecessary steps that other bureaucracies do.

I have been with this issue probably longer than anyone at this table has, with the whole ethanol issue, and I remember when Al Gore invented it all.

I continue to oppose the RFS, which I have done since its creation in 2005.

Well, I am serious about that. He did it with the idea that this is better for the environment and all that, and I think, Mr. Lewis, if I judge from your statement, it sounds to me like Al Gore was wrong.

We're simply requesting that Ms. McCarthy and this Administration honor its commitment to transparency--that's what they promised.

President Trump is prioritizing engagement with Vietnam, an important trading partner of the United States.

I hope to be able to work together on that, not only to be able to solve this rescission issue and to figure out how we actually use those dollars for victims of crime, rather than go back to Treasury.

So let me tell you why this is so important.

I appreciate you trying to clarify that for us.

But it is not technical that we overspend an additional $9 billion on paper but nowhere else gets to see it.

I have raised for the last 2 years in this subcommittee and in the full committee the possibility that those dollars would be spent one time and then could not be spent again the same dollars the next year, year after year.

I just want to say thank you. That is something that we have worked on for a couple years.

No one in America is above the law, and no one in America is not faced with accountability and checks and balances.