Political Quotes

“I have two amendments that I want to speak to very briefly this evening that I hope we will have an opportunity to consider tomorrow when we move to a very accelerated process. One of them relates to lands and one relates to water--our oceans and how we move about on our oceans. The first amendment I would like to speak to is an amendment that would establish a neutral reserve fund for land sales, transfers, and exchanges. Before I get to describing that, I want to take just a couple of minutes and speak to the overall budget itself in comparison and contrast to that submitted by the President. The budget before us is a stark contrast to the President's request, which simply pretended that sequestration didn't exist, never came remotely close to balancing, and would have led to the return of trillion dollar deficits by 2025. The Republican budget we have in front of us, as compared to the President's request, while far from perfect--believe me, far from perfect--does present a very significant choice between a direction on energy that takes us backwards and a proposal that we see laid out in this Republican budget that gives us a clear choice when it comes to the future of our energy and natural resources policy. The President's budget featured tens of billions of dollars of tax hikes and fees for our Nation's oil, gas, and coal producers.…”