climate change doesn't just affect your constituents in Kentucky or my constituents in Illinois. We are living in a global environment and climate change affects all of us.

in my 20 years in this Congress, I have never seen nor heard of anything that is so shallow, any legislation that appeared before any committee in the Congress that is so shallow, so ill-informed, so misplaced than this piece of…

I just cannot believe that if this bill passed, it kind of reminds me of a gag rag that we are muffling or gagging the voice of the American people as it relates to our environmental leadership.

this bill is not aimed at producing not one job for the American people or it is not aimed at moving our country's energy policy forward not even one iota, one scintilla.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend my fellow colleagues in the House for their leadership, for their vision, and for their votes today to strengthen the U.S.-Africa economic and trade relations. Passage of H.R. 5986 will also solidify…

There certainly is a tremendous rate of activity taking place, particularly in the shale resource-prone areas in the United States.

while Democrats under President Obama's leadership have put forth a truly all-of-the-above energy agenda, it appears that my Republican colleagues are once again taking their cue from one of their most influential leaders, Sarah Palin, and…

However, you testified that domestic oil production is actually the highest it has been since 1998.

Mr. Chairman, back in May, my office was notified that the NRC was recently honored by U.S. Black Engineering Information Technology Magazine as one of the government agencies considered most supportive of the engineering departments of…

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank again all of the NRC commissioners for your attendance here today.

I have been working on this issue of asthma for quite a while and it is a real acute concern of mine and it has been and always will be because it disproportionately impacts my community.