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…

Less than 1 percent of the population is shouldering 100 percent of the burden of maintaining our national security.

in offering this prayer, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was 'bring[ing] faith and God in a very inclusive and nondiscriminatory way into our public life.'

faith in God has played a pivotal role in American history every day since the Declaration of Independence.

The U.S. Senate can and should help in this regard, by approving S. 1956, the 'European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act.'

The United States has always led the world on aviation issues.

The United States of America has been one of the principal foot-draggers in this entire effort.

Doing nothing is not an option.

We don't have any regime. We have no effort to control carbon, except for the individual efforts of cities' mayors.

I hope not. I'd be interested to hear, through you, from our friends in the airlines whether they would still want the ban if the Secretary cannot hold them harmless.

Make no mistake. The ETS is not about the environment. It's about a new source of revenue for cash-strapped Europe.

The stuff that goes up there goes to everybody's airspace. It doesn't stay in the United States.

Until ICAO reaches an agreement, the EU's program is reasonable, affordable, and it makes sense.

Nothing happening is not an option which I want to contemplate.

The imposition of this unilateral cap, tax, and trade scheme on U.S. citizens and U.S. companies is a clear violation of our nation's sovereignty and treaties governing international aviation and commerce.

Mr. Speaker, under rule XXII, clause 7(c), I hereby announce my intention to offer a motion to instruct on H.R. 4348. The form of the motion is as follows: Mr. Flake moves that the managers on the part of the House at the conference on the…

In many ways Dodd-Frank was a political response to a--instead of real reform in so many ways.

I support the goals, but I have to oppose the action.