We have an Administration, the Obama Administration, that continually makes it harder and more expensive and more difficult to produce oil and gas in this country through regulation and other restrictions while at the same time making it…

The fact that we produce zero rare earths and are now, again, 100 percent dependent on China for our rare earths should be unsettling to all of us.

Lifting the oil export ban was very important and that set a very good example of what I am talking about.

If we want to help our friends, especially our gas consuming friends in Japan, in Asia and elsewhere, we do want to increase global supply.

We just recently, led by our Chairman, lifted the oil export ban which had been in place for 40 years.

I think that is the wrong approach, and I think it has ramifications in job creation in this country, in economic growth in this country and in national security from the standpoint of energy security.

How do we empower our industry to compete rather than shackle it at the same time we are actually taking steps that assist our adversaries?

Nobody should be paying $9.99 for their oil when people here in Washington, DC are getting it for $2.10.

We have lousy permitting processes. Where, in terms of permitting for mines, minerals, if we are not the worst in the world, we are close to being the worst.

I thank my good friend from New Jersey for that question. The surest way to prevent acts of terror is to make sure acts of terror are never funded. That takes an international banking sophistication and an understanding of every potential…

If it seems like I stand here every year around this same time giving the same speech congratulating the same football team on winning the same national championship, it is because I do. I am here again to congratulate the North Dakota…

thank you to my great friend from the State of Delaware. I wish to first make a comment on Adam Szubin because I also serve on the banking committee and have had a chance not only to meet with him personally but to witness the excellent…

western North Dakota is getting a lot of attention these days because of its vibrant energy economy. But people also need to know about the spectacular landscape and natural beauty that thrives side by side with energy development in my…

while I have the floor, if I might, I wish to shift gears. I know the Presiding Officer is a sports fan and that in her State they have many wonderful sports teams--football, basketball, and certainly the University of Iowa had an…

if there is anything that we can do on this Committee or anything I can personally do to assist you in carrying out that mission, I hope that you pick up the phone and call me personally.

the great tragedy is that an incentive program that was built to improve the quality of care actually led, in my opinion, to fraud because all of a sudden there was a monetary reward which you could get if you lied.

This is a sacred duty that we have to make sure that our veterans are treated appropriately.

I am not going to be pulled off target on the Choice Program.