John Shimkus actually said...

"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."

"This administration promised before the election that they were going to bankrupt coal."

"Isn't it a self-fulfilling prophesy that if you issue rules that nobody could meet that we won't have electricity generation by coal?"

"America can and must increase its domestic energy production and there is much that we can learn from the Canadian experience."