We have a moral responsibility to deal with these issues, and we have a moral responsibility to provide that leadership.

I am a supporter of the continent, the entire continent of Africa.

But pardon me, but the oil companies make money by producing lots of oil. They produce lots of oil because they go out and look for it and they find it.

If we had confined our development to areas of known reserves back in those days, we would have run out of oil.

When this Administration took office, this industry was poised to produce more American energy than we had at any time in our past.

I mean, can people honestly say that our Nation is more energy-independent today than it was four years ago? I think not.

This Administration has sharply reduced the acreage available for offshore leasing. It has increased the length of the regulatory process.

Because that is about the only area that you are allowing American enterprise to develop. And that is an outrage.

Importantly, we didn't just give the industry a pass. We reduced DME payments nationwide by 9.5 percent.

One that we believe could be done if done by federal workers could be done with less federal workers, better organized with better morale, paid well, trained well with good equipment.

What we heard today was that in some cases two years after delivery they still hadn't identify the airports for things to go to, which means they bought them without knowing if or when they'd go anywhere.

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 23, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $13,500,000)''. Page 25, line 9, after the…

So I'm happy to say CIA did their job. My job is to make sure that the men and women of TSA have the tools and the training they need so that we can be more confident that our fliers are safe.

It's an organization that doesn't seem to have ever developed their plan.

Well, Anderson, I think in the case of that failed bombing attempt, we should be proud that the restructured CIA... found this and uncovered it before we ever had to ask the question of would TSA have found it with their equipment.

We're not talking about the employees, we're talking about the morale of the employees because of bad management.

What we now know, which is this is an organization that buys before it plans, that hires before it trains.

Mr. Chairman, my amendment to H.R. 5326 would fully fund the Department of Justice's financial and mortgage fraud enforcement activities as well as the new Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group. In announcing this initiative…