There is no reason, with our natural resources--correct me if I am wrong--that we should be importing oil from anybody outside of the Western Hemisphere.

I share the chairman and ranking member's goal and my vision is to make North America energy secure, energy independent in this region in the Western Hemisphere, to bring stability to the fuel prices.

What I would like to bring out in this hearing is clarification and the purity of science and the purpose of science and not have agendas driven by one side or the other.

I would encourage you guys to get the results of that report out at soon as we can so we can bring some stability to the market.

We don't want that driving our policies. Because now if we are using those products here, we are going to be banned from trading with Europe on that, and it is not based on science.

America is known around the world as a country with a global immigration policy of unenforcement.

the increase is 265 percent from December 2014 to the middle of March.

we don't want to walk away and leave a vacuum because when you leave a vacuum somebody will fill that.

if we don't get to the basic problem we are treating symptoms when we need to get to the underlying diagnosis and cause of that.

What in the heck have we been doing since 1946, and why do not the governments of those countries want the desire to fix that problem?

if you really want our help you will do these things.