Jackie Speier actually said...

"Even more importantly, we ought to be examining the Department of Interior's failure, and I underscore failure, to collect the full amount of revenues and royalties that these companies owe the Americ..."

"I think this hearing should focus on the thousands of leases for millions of acres of Federal land and water that oil and gas companies are sitting on, but not producing on."

"Let me repeat that: at high risk for waste, fraud, and abuse; precisely the kinds of issues that this committee should be focused on."

"the two delayed lease sales would have auctioned off approximately 33,000 acres of public land."