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.

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

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.

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

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…

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

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

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

Why is it that the proponents of this bill are smiling and smirking while walking around this Capitol? It's because this bill requires the hasty approval of an unprecedented permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. They're smiling and smirking…

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…

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 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…

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

I want to thank the ranking member for this time, and I thank him for his leadership on this issue. Mr. Chairman, I find it remarkable that we are here today debating a bill that is essentially a regulatory earmark for just one company…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 903, after line 22, insert the following new paragraph: (3) Restriction on use of eminent…

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.

I think what I mentioned to Congressman Waxman was true. There is a tremendous growing movement of Evangelicals and Roman Catholics across this country who support us, that understand that being pro-life is totally pro-life, environmental…

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 feel a sense of serious schizophrenia kind of settling in on this committee, because we have already passed the Train Act--to delay the rules and you know, with the majority's votes.

Asthma is a very, very--high incidents of asthma and asthma-related illnesses in my district, and so I want you to know, I empathize with and I share your concern.

I can't see the rhyme or the reason that this committee, this subcommittee never, ever had a hearing on the public health implications of nullifying these rules before passing the bill.