John Shimkus actually said...

"So we are poised as a country to really be in a great position to turn--over my past decade of being here, it is always we are sending our money to the Middle East because they have the energy."

"I think that there may be a time, based upon the demand of liquid transportation fuels right now, and our supply and our renewables that we might be able to export refined product across the world to ..."

"We had talked before about--I usually bring a poster. I haven't done it this Congress--of coal miners who lost their jobs in the '92 Clean Air Act."

"That is what this debate is about, and everyone knows it, and so that is why we need to move forward for jobs and lower costs of energy and the like."