John Shimkus actually said...

"why don't we have a long-term supply policy of increasing domestic production so that we can actually reduce the price long term instead of just for a week or so."

"The amount of red tape and the studies and reviews that have to be gone through to be able to move forward on Federal land are not comparable to States."

"So essentially it is saying you can't go do the one thing that will work until you go do the thing that won't work, which doesn't make any sense to me."

"the legislation that is before us, the Strategic Energy Production Act, doesn't tie the hands of the President whatsoever in order to access or release energy from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve."