Bobby Rush

I am sure that the President wasn't talking about all the coal plants. He was talking about the most egregious polluters.

You are trying to insinuate--you are taking a brief three or four words out of total context what he was saying.

Don't blame the EPA. Blame the oil companies.

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

I support President Obama's All of the Above energy approach, which encompasses increased oil and gas production here in the U.S.

We must strategically wean ourselves away from oil, from our oil reliance, especially in the transportation sector.

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…

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My last unanimous consent request is that Mr. Weiss indicated that he had--he indicated in his testimony or during his testimony that there was a report, a 2009 report by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

I am not blaming speculators for these sharp increases in gas prices, but I do believe it is worth examining this issue more closely.

I sent a letter to the Chairman Gensler, asking him to conduct an investigation into the practices of Wall Street traders.

We all know that gas prices are set on the global market and there are a variety of real political factors that determine the price of fuel.

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

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois will be postponed. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Doyle The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

Why don't we protect the landowners, the property holders in our Nation? We are elected here to protect them and not let a big oil company, TransCanada, a foreign company, come in and just take----

I would like to inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 1 minute remaining. {time} 1620

The American people deserve better than this shoddy attempt to provide TransCanada with a regulatory earmark that allows them to bypass the established rules and procedures we have in place. I cannot support this, and I ask my colleagues…

I just think that you should have an opportunity to respond to those, I think, pretty unfair characterizations of you and your motivations and your understanding of this issue.

I am going to offer you an opportunity, either verbally on the record now, to address the charges or you--in writing in the future.