John Shimkus actually said...

"The American shale revolution transformed our Nation's economic competitiveness and is driving cleaner electricity generation because of old-fashioned innovation, entrepreneurship, regulatory certaint..."

"Policies that artificially raise the cost or availability of energy threaten to undermine this fundamental fact."

"Let's focus on solutions that work for the American public."

"Today's hearing ticks off a topic that will be challenging but not impossible to work through in a bipartisan manner."