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Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 16, 2011, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Committee on…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on March 16, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 16, 2011. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…
So we actually have people in Washington here who are working to get that price up, when the rest of America is going to the pump and seeing a $50 fill-up in their car jump to $75, and that is crunching the family budget.
So despite some of the things that you are hearing here today, information that is coming from your agency is telling us that we have a lot of stuff that we can use for many years.
Mr. Speaker, we in Louisiana had to suffer through the BP spill, which is bad enough, but look what the President has done to us since. First, he placed a moratorium on offshore drilling, killing thousands of Louisiana jobs. Then the…
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me say first of all that I want to compliment this panel, because this is some of the most cogent informative stuff that we have had in a long time here.
I thank the gentleman from Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I rise today really troubled because I am opposed to terminating the HAMP program and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. But I am troubled because these programs have actually been…
the actions that this President has taken to create this crisis is even more devastating along the Gulf Coast.
American's are fed up with paying high gas prices at the pump.
Just using the logic of the President if he is going to try to take claim for production today that was authorized, explored years ago, I guess, in a few years, that means that a future President is going to have a big reduction in…
the gas prices were rising well before the events in the Middle East and North Africa. It was because of the President's policies.
when rigs leave, it has a cascading negative impact on America.
there is no moratorium on shallow-water drilling, yet as you point out, there is an 85 percent reduction in shallow-water drilling
Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I am really concerned about the continuing resolution we passed yesterday with over $1 billion in cuts to one of the most important Federal agencies, NOAA. That's right, our weather and natural disaster…
we spend nearly $1 billion each and every day on buying oil from foreign sources.
It is time for the President to act. This is costing jobs. It is raising gas prices, and it is killing America's energy security.