Political Quotes

“I was going to talk about this bill, and I will, but I really want to talk about the inflation in the naming of these bills. This is a bill to allow a faster process for exporting natural gas to other countries. So what is it called? The Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act. What do you follow after that? Peace and prosperity in our time, whatever that may, in fact, involve. I just think this bill is overrated in its title. I also want to say it is overrated in what it does. There are 17 or 18 free trade countries, and they can have the export of natural gas to them right away. They are free trade countries that have an agreement with us. There is no problem in getting the approval for them. The question is: Are we going to approve export of natural gas to non-free trade countries? The premise of this bill is that we are not doing enough to export natural gas to them or anyone else, I guess. Congressman Gardner's bill would change the approval process for liquefied natural gas exports, presumably because the Department of Energy is moving too slowly, because they can approve an application now for export anywhere around the world. In fact, DOE has moved--quite properly, it seems to me--to authorize these LNG exports. They have already approved seven export proposals, and they are continuing to evaluate additional applications. What these approvals that we have already granted--had granted--the U.S.…”