Lynn A. Westmoreland: “I don't want to have to answer that question to my grandkids. If you will remember, this Congress in 1995 passed…”

“I don't want to have to answer that question to my grandkids. If you will remember, this Congress in 1995 passed drilling in ANWR. President Clinton vetoed it. Today, we would be getting 1 million barrels of oil a day from ANWR. The American people do not want us to stay here in the fetal position. They want us to act. And they don't want to hear the excuses that the majority is giving for us not taking action. We need to act, and some of the things that the gentleman has mentioned are so common sense. I mean, we can drill as environmentally sensitive as anybody in this world. Our technology is the best. We've got the smartest and the brightest. We can do what France is doing with their nuclear waste. We can do what France is doing with their nuclear power. We can do what Brazil is doing with the coal-to-oil. We can do what Norway's doing with being environmentally sound drilling. This is America. This is the place where we are the leaders of the world in so many things, and for some reason, we want to have our hat in our hand, going to even our enemies, begging them for them to increase their oil production, use their natural resources, because we are not willing to do it.”