John Shimkus actually said...

"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."

"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?"