prepared statement

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise today in strong opposition to this horrendous bill, H.R. 1582. Although this bill is called the Energy Consumers Relief Act, a more appropriate title would be the Shamelessly…

The title of this bill is the Energy Consumers Relief Act, but yet the majority prevented me from offering an amendment that simply stated that the EPA rules could not be blocked if they resulted in consumers saving money at the gas pump…

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, here we go again with the Republicans spewing their shamelessly empty rhetoric concerning jobs. Jobs for the American people might be on their minds, jobs for the American people…

Not only did they turn their backs, but the Illinois EPA, the State EPA, refused to even investigate this matter. I had to get the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. EPA to end this atrocity. If this bill is ever enacted, it will bar the…

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this timely and important hearing on the overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard.

And there are many Americans who are at home today, and some of them are probably viewing this hearing, and they are hearing all the testimony and all the questions, and I am sure that there are--far too many of them are at home watching…

The issue of providing food costs is an issue that I am extremely sensitive to.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in strong opposition to the farm bill rule and the underlying bill because it takes the safety net away from America's poor children. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

the RFS has indeed helped to make us more energy secure with America's ethanol industry now producing 10 percent of the Nation's vehicle fuel supply.

I have always been very supportive of this policy because I believe since its inception it has achieved many of the goals that it was first enacted to do.