Political Quotes

“I thank the Speaker for the privilege to address this House of Representatives. I came to the floor here to speak about a number of issues, but the subject matter, as often happens when I arrive here and listen to the preceding speakers, that subject matter does change, and I would just take it from the top. Gas prices. Mr. Speaker, gas prices are exactly the same that they would be if we had Democrats in charge of this Congress rather than Republicans. The difference is people have a lot more money in their pockets to buy the gas with, because Democrats would raise the taxes, take the money out of the pockets of the working people and gas prices would not have changed. We need to do more with energy supply, and I am for that. We can't get past some of the Republicans in here. But there aren't Democrats that I know of that will support us expanding the supply of energy. We need to drill in ANWR. We need to drill on the Outer Continental Shelf. I am hopeful we will be able to bring out a bill within the next few days of proceedings in the House so that we can drill on the Outer Continental Shelf for gas and oil, within reasonable limits that we can work out with the States. So, gas prices are the same as what they would be. It is just that people have more money in their pockets under Republicans to pay for this gas. This is also a global market. It isn't a United States market.…”