I believe the Secretary of Defense should be the core, the rock-solid person, for defense of America.

The President has indicated basically he wants more taxes and more spending and he will not find any other reductions in spending anywhere else to relieve the burdens on the military.

the public proposal of the President that he would like to reduce by one-third our already substantially reduced nuclear arsenal raises a serious concern to me.

those prosecutions have declined, unfortunately, substantially under President Obama's Presidency.

I would just say I would call on President Obama to call in Attorney General Eric Holder and ask him why the prosecutions have dropped dramatically across all categories of Federal gun laws.

We would like to see the Federal laws on the books enforced, I suggest.

First, we need to redouble our efforts to accomplish important infrastructure improvements at the least possible cost to the taxpayer.

I applaud you both for dedicating yourselves and your Committee staff to this important issue.

The data I have seen so far does not indicate that.

With regard to drought and floods, this morning we have had advocates say that floods are caused by global warming gases and droughts are caused by global warming.

I have, and I think most Republicans, have voted for mileage improvements and efficiencies.

I was just going to offer for the record the recent Wall Street Journal article by a number of respected scientists who say that we should not be panicking about global warming and point out many of the problems with the theory.

So, the extent to which we raise artificially energy costs, higher than they would be based on the normal market forces, we diminish the growth potential in our economy, do we not?

I do not believe that is correct, Madam.

President Obama is engaged in a systematic drive to promote the global warming agenda, and in fact said electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket.

It is just a question of how much we can afford to spend, and that is where the dispute is.

It seems to me that, in an economic sense, passing a law that requires the business to community and private homeowners to spend large amounts of money to 'go green' is no different than the Federal Government taxing the economy.

I think it is time for the nation to discuss it.

I mean, we have been told by the IPCC and other climate experts that these computers were predicting a dramatic increase in temperature.

I would just want to say that that is a cause of concern as we as policymakers are asked to invest trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money.

Now, we want to have higher wages, as high wages as we can possibly afford for our workers.

I am offended by that.

I would acknowledge that we may well have some warming, and it may well be human caused.

You are asking us to have unprecedented high electricity prices in order to avoid a danger that is not as real as it appears.

I just have to say that I am excited about low cost natural gas.