There is nothing that Congress or the administration can do to address the way to reduce gas prices in the immediate future.

While my Republican colleagues may engage in a scorched-earth strategy and an endless and senseless blame game gamut and point to the administration's policies as the singular cause for rising gas prices, I believe that in fact it is your…

I am eager for you to set the record straight in regards to the levels of oil and gas production importation and consumption during the time that President Obama has been in office.

Well, our consumption of gasoline has decreased in part due to two reasons. First, there was a dramatic decrease, unfortunately, due to a very severe recession that we are very slowly climbing out of.

We are producing more oil now domestically than we were at any time in the last 8 years.

It is the President and his energy policies that are contributing enormously to these sky-high prices.

Under President Obama we are importing less oil now than any other time in the last 13 years.

I am concerned about these high gas prices.

I have a unanimous consent request. One, that I have two letters here that I spoke of in my opening statement.

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, in the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1 2, these words are recorded: To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose, and to everything under the sun, a time to be mourned and…

I believe it would benefit this subcommittee to hold a hearing strictly on this issue, in order to bring transparency to the American people.