Dan Burton: “Mr. Chairman, this legislation in a tougher form, in a tougher form, passed the Senate with 73 Members of that body…”

Why would these oil producers and gas producers not want to drill? So I think it's a bogus argument to say, Hey, they're holding these permits and not drilling. They want to make money, and if they don't drill, they're not going to make…

Well, Mr. Speaker, another week has gone by, and the American people are paying over $4 a gallon for gasoline, and it's going up because we're getting into vacation time. And we're going home. We're leaving this body. This Congress, our…

And when we start having inflation like that, the cost of doing business, the cost of buying products, everything goes up, goes right out the window. Now they're talking about putting trillions of dollars back into this economy, and it's…

First of all, Americans are suffering. That is a fact. The price of gasoline is too high. Another fact is that everything that is associated or has anything to do with transportation is being affected, and the prices are going up for…