John Shimkus actually said...

"The fracking boom is coming to southern Illinois, and there are a lot of exciting opportunities there, especially for rural, small-town America."

"It has the fewest proposed number of lease sales ever submitted by an administration, going back to President Carter."

"We are now going through a possible timber harvest, and its nonnative species. So it should be a win-win."

"There is no reason for us to continue to have a negative balance of trade and continue to be a borrowing country when we could have a positive balance of trade and we could turn into a lending company..."