Political Quotes

“Mr. President, just as I expected, we have been in this back-and-forth show-and-tell on oil and gas issues instead of spending the time and working on a real energy plan, one that is important for not only my State, my colleague's State, but for the whole Nation. So we go back and forth, and it is politics as usual in this Chamber. We just heard a nice presentation by my colleague from Wyoming about how it is all the President's fault the prices are going up and all these other issues. Let me just say this--and I know my friend from Louisiana knows this--in Alaska, there is a clear indication what we believe when it comes to energy prices. We have communities that pay $9, $10 a gallon for heating fuel. We understand when costs go up what happens to our economies in our rural communities. We also are a producer of oil and gas, and we understand the potential and job opportunities. But this last week, when we started on this bill, I know my colleague and I were just two of four people who said, no; we are not moving on this bill because we expected exactly what is going on now. We are just doing a little show-and-tell, having a little argument back and forth, and in another 24 hours or maybe 30 hours we will be off this bill and we will not have an energy plan.…”