George Lemieux: “regulatory certainty or predictability... when things are unpredictable, businesses freeze up and tend not to act.”

Mr. President, when this oil washes up on shore, when we have failed to respond to the offers of assistance from foreign countries, it's not just oil that's washing up on shore. It's failure.

We have a responsibility in the Congress to work toward ensuring Americans have every opportunity to compete in the world marketplace.

Iran's nuclear program and developing ties with other rogue nations like Venezuela is an extremely destabilizing force.

I think that rail, both on the passenger and freight side, needs to have an ever more prominent role in transportation in this country.