I think we need to start here at home in making sure that we don't get ourselves into treaties that are going to subject us to this kind of--not just from one country, but any country in the world who wants to complain about our emissions…

Did Chrysler go bankrupt in April of 2009?

Did GM go bankrupt after the auto bailout?

We cannot say we were not warned by the Obama Administration about their intent on fighting the coal industry

I applaud the coal industry for turning down the opportunity to receive a bail out from the Federal Government in an attempt to choose winners and losers.

When we have an Administration, the President of whom acknowledged before he was elected he was going to make it economically infeasible to build new coal fired powerplants, and he has done so.

Mr. Speaker, tomorrow marks the official first day of hurricane season. Each year, South Carolinians remain alert from June through the summer, hoping another Hurricane Gracie, Hugo or Andrew does not reach our beaches, bringing massive…

I think that is an advance over where we were probably 2 years ago when one side was saying, let's do something about the deficit, and the other side was saying, let's not worry about the deficit.

We can't just agree that we are going to have to do something and then not actually do something.

The idea that we get into a rules-based system with other nations that establish some international rules of engagement, theoretically, I think we could have some honest debate on how we come out on that.

We know when we try to deal with the U.N. on sanctions against Iran, not all of the members play by the rules.

this is the first time in history that an international organization, the U.N. in this case, would possess taxing authority over this country.

So why do we need to get into all of this in order to be able to operate our Navy as we have for years around the world?

If we have a veto, they have a veto. Their interest is very different than ours.

But, General, how is it in the interests of the United States to turn the royalties over to an unaccountable international bureaucracy?

Worse still, these sizable 'royalties' could go to corrupt dictatorships and state sponsors of terrorism.

The treaty creates a United Nations-style body called the 'International Seabed Authority.'

It would constitute a massive form of global welfare, courtesy of the American taxpayer.