John Shimkus

It is always a memorable time and usually very short because on September 11th, that it was a short event in which we gathered.

And the point being, two similar facilities--one in downtown Manhattan; one outside Olney, Illinois--two very different risk portfolios.

If you can't get the small things right, how do people trust you to do the big things in this issue?

So DHS is in the high-risk; CFATS is probably their number-one problem of concern.

Well, I think it was last year when I had an inspector just come visit and kind of do an open-office-hour type of thing.

I guess the big point is, if you can't do the small things, how can the country, the localities, the taxpayers, the public interest groups, expect us to do the big things?

We need to fix TWIC and use it as the standard card.

How do you best honor those on a day like today than to address the threats of today?

State sovereignty, national unity.

Even in my own district in southern Illinois, where is my oil and gas exploration and recovery going on?

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 if we released our energy companies to…

There is really no reason we should have a recession currently if we release our energy companies to explore, identify, and recover our energy resources.

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.

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

I think it is by far the majority bipartisan consensus that we move forward at least finishing the study.

Medicare, by the actuary, says it is going to go broke 2024.

That is not good budgeting processes, is it?

The $500 billion also was supposed to go to help pay for the Affordable Care Act.

I love fossil fuels, so I am not anti-fossil fuels.

There is no current technology for carbon capture and sequestration. I don't believe there ever will be, economically feasible.

Thank you for your indulgence.

Without objection, so ordered.

We want to thank the second panel.

Would these come down if we moved on a public policy and there was a possibility of the economies of scale? Would you imagine that would happen?