I question whether the Interior Department has the independence and the expertise necessary to conduct this review.

Both the EPA and the contractor knew that there was a risk of a blowout at the Gold King Mine.

It is important that we hear directly from the EPA's top official about what caused this spill.

One such area surrounds standards to prevent spousal impoverishment.

And it is an honor to be able to sit on a subcommittee panel with you and introduce a Nico Gomez, our CEO of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.

Unfortunately, individuals are now using court-recognized loopholes to transfer significant resources to a spouse.

States have denied applicants who are clearly above Medicaid's income standards.

Mr. President, I would like to take a moment and recap the day and some of the issues I heard on the floor. I have been on the floor quite a bit today and heard a lot of the debate. As I processed through some of the debate, I heard--and…

Mr. President, it has been a long day. We have heard about everything that can be heard from a lot of different people, and I have come to some conclusions that there are some things that are incontrovertible after hearing both sides of…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate Chairman Burgess and the committee for allowing this bill to come to the floor. This is one of those commonsense bills that brings a regulation that was put in place nearly 40 years ago and brings it to today's…

Mr. President, in the days ahead, we are facing one of the most consequential issues we will face as a nation--this issue of an agreement with Iran. Some people want to make this into a partisan conversation. It is not a partisan…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Energy Policy

Mr. President, I come from an energy State--Oklahoma. We truly do all of the above. We have coal, oil, gas, wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and we are just missing nuclear. Quite frankly, we probably would have nuclear if the regulations…

The President seems to always exaggerate the benefits and ignore the costs.

I am here in support of my friend from West Virginia and her legislation, Affordable Reliable Energy Now.

Senator Inhofe. Senator Whitehouse, I appreciate the fact you have a lot of passion on this issue, but I also appreciate the fact we have had many hearings on this.

The biggest problem in getting the wind from where the wind blows to where the people live who want that electricity is the environmentalists who are blocking the building of the transmission lines to carry that energy.

The President comes out with his initiative which I believe is a national energy tax. To me, this is regulation without representation.