I appreciate that it's not fully flushed out, if you will.

We need to do more. We need to be aggressive with it.

The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) supports all state fish and wildlife agencies sharing in part of the revenues derived from energy production in the Outer Continental Shelf.

Congress should be pushing for increased exploration and production in offshore areas like the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Outer Continental Shelf.

Congress and the Interior Department should be encouraging the use of natural gas.

Congress must recognize--and encourage--the development of oil resources on federal lands and on private lands.

The bad news is that some D.C. policy makers appear to have declared a war on oil.

We cannot allow our domestic oil and gas production to be shut down in favor of increased dependence on foreign oil.

I'm very pleased to hear your announcement this morning about the memorandum of understanding with FERC and MMS.

Our renewable energy resources are wonderful and vast. We look forward to the time that you will come up to visit them.

Our nation is blessed with abundant energy resources--both on land and beneath the surfaces of our lands and waters.

We ought not to let the jurisdictional disputes with respect to ocean, tidal, wave energy essentially get in the way of us moving forward with that.

The bond between our countries could not be stronger.

The bond and the friendship that is felt between the United States and Ireland is something that I think everybody understands.

The United States of America will always stand with those who work towards peace.

Turning the tide on the threat of nuclear weapons and strengthening the international non-proliferation regime is one of the great and urgent challenges of our time.

The American people sent us here to get things done.

We are better for their contributions to our democracy, and we are richer for their art and their literature, their poetry and their songs.