Dan Burton: “I have played golf at the expense of people raising money for leukemia research and for cancer research so the taxpayers…”

Each one of those drilling sites, if they drill and they find oil, it costs up to $2 billion to drill there. And if they're not going to make any money, they're sure not going to do that.

America is a can-do Nation and we need a can-do Congress. And right now, the Congress, and both the House and the Senate, which is controlled by the other party, they have a we-can't-do, we can't do this, we can't do that. As a result…

They have twice the amount of oil there that they have in Texas, and I just cannot understand why we're not drilling there.

We want to get the price of gasoline down and we want to go to new forms of energy. But it is going to take time. And during that time for transition, it is extremely important that we start moving toward energy independence. And a main…