Mike Pompeo

If we would lower marginal income tax rates, lower corporate tax rates and shrink the size of the EPA and the Department of Energy, we would get cheaper, better fuels much more quickly.

I have more faith in the American people and innovators than I do in Government bureaucrats.

I cannot understand for the life of me why we are here talking about all these subsidies.

I think it is a fool's errand. And I think 50 years of energy subsidy history demonstrates that quite clearly.

I hope natural gas makes it. I hope it does it in its own way with the money from the industry.

I think natural gas holds tremendous promise.

I just briefly want to say thank you for holding this hearing. Thanks for bringing attention to this incredibly important issue.

Today I rise to recognize the tremendous accomplishment of Wichita State University and its men's basketball team. Shocker Basketball is rich in tradition, with 10,000 screaming fans at nearly every game. For the first time, Wichita State…

These trade agreements are critical to them.

I want to go on the record hoping everyone in this room flew here today on a general aviation aircraft built in Wichita, Kansas.

I offer this amendment to return just under $8.5 million to the United States taxpayers by sending $8.5 million to the deficit reduction account. In November, America elected a different set of leaders to this House of Representatives…

Mr. Flake's amendment addresses a very important issue, and that's duplicative processes and duplicative agencies. As a former soldier, there is nothing I care more about than making sure we take care of our airmen, our sailors, our…

Let me begin by thanking Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Dicks for the hard work that they did on the Defense appropriations bill. It was yeoman's work in difficult and challenging fiscal times to present a defense budget that makes…

What we don't need is government taking our money and handing it back to folks. What we need is to be left alone. We need smaller government. That's my core problem with the legislation for SBIRs. Government doesn't do a very good job of…

Last week, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed to join a Federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare, and I want to applaud Attorney General Schmidt, Governor Sam Brownback, and the 25 other States that have…

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