I am actively working to defeat that budget.

Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski, you have made clear your commitment to the hardworking men and woman across America who are today's newest energy producers.

I believe the most effective way to limit environmentally destructive land-use change elsewhere is through land use policies.

I hope that's been put to rest.

The continued commitment of the 112th Congress, this Committee, and the enactment of legislation such as S. 187 will all contribute to ensuring America's future energy security.

Let me close by repeating my belief that biofuels have been--and will continue to be--our most important supply-side strategy for reducing dependence on imported oil.

I think we need to restart that effort and move ahead again on cellulosic ethanol.

In my view the key to making our economy less vulnerable to oil price increases is to use less oil.

We can be researching that for the next 10, 20 years.

There's just no basis in fact.

I hope that our environmental groups revisit their prioritization of alternative, environmentally responsible strategies for America to reduce our dependence on oil.

I congratulate you and your committee members for your leadership on charting strategies for addressing our oil problem.

The gun show loophole allows anyone to walk into that gun show--it could be the most known criminal--put down the money, and walk away with guns.

The United States Government honors, to the penny, all Government contracts even when doing so requires supplemental appropriations, with the exception of contracts with tribes.

It is not necessary to write a better law; just honor the law that the Congress has already written.

The stretch between Port Newark and Liberty International Airport has been identified...as the most dangerous area in America for a terrorist attack.

Because that magazine is designed for military and law enforcement use, and it should not fall into the hands of people who don't have a purpose other than malice to deal with it.

It strikes me as kind of an anomaly that people who are on a list that says these are suspects for terror, and they can walk in and buy a gun.