Mr. Chairman, this is a fairly simple amendment, and it is a commonsense amendment. While the technologies could also be used that this amendment will plus up for natural gas or oil, I will focus my attention on coal because that is what…

You've got to get rid of this guy. He cannot be defended by Republicans again. This is outrageous.

Well, thank you, Chairman King, for convening this fifth hearing of the Task Force on Executive Overreach, this one focusing on executive overreach in Federal regulations.

I am personally disappointed that we plan to spend not just today but an additional day in June discussing these unsubstantiated claims.

When the vast majority of the House and the Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike, can agree that the evidence to support impeaching Commissioner Koskinen is not there, I think it's time to move on from these games and do some real work.

It seems to me a dereliction of duty when you wait 4 months to tell Congress, right?

I just think that this is respectfully a remedy in search of a problem and that we have better things that we could be doing with our taxpayer dollars to put the American people in a better place in terms of their quality of life.

I'm personally moving forward to drop legislation that reenacts Title VI of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 where independent counsel can be appointed to investigate these matters so justice can be served.

I regret that we are not using the time today to hold a hearing on criminal justice reform, gun violence prevention, legislation to protect the intellectual property rights of artists and musicians or comprehensive immigration reform.

I met with the Indian Ambassador to the United States in recent months to talk about this and shared my very significant concern about it.

The Indian Government denied visas for American researchers in March who were going as part of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

India's status as that secular democracy, as you described it, is a really important one, but you can only have that status if people do not feel like they are going to be preferred or punished for how they choose to worship.

I get the feeling just in listening to your testimony and some of the concerns that people on both sides have had that we are not as brutally honest about our relationship with India as we should be.

We certainly would have encouraged them to allow these researchers to travel because we believe it would foster greater understanding.

I think it is good that as we think about that part of the world, we are changing our vocabulary to reflect the fact that the relationship with India is of growing strategic importance.

Mr. Speaker, recently, the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus held its annual Member Shoot-Out at Prince George's County Trap and Skeet Center. This is a friendly competition between Republicans and Democrats where we get out there and we…

I do think if we want to move beyond whatever this new normal is, the idea of how we simplify our system but incent long-term value creation has to be part of this ongoing discussion.

I think regardless of where we sit--which side of the aisle--I think most of us would, at least, privately acknowledge you could not create a more complicated, messy tax code than we have in America.