The sequester is here. It is time. We have got to get these spending reductions in place. It is going to be a home run.

When I go around in Kansas and talk to folks and talk to them about a business that supports 1.2 million American jobs and over $150 billion of wealth creation across the U.S. economy and ask, ``What do you think a President would do if…

I was surprised Mr. Griffith didn't talk about coal exports.

Most of the things that the federal government's resources have gone to in this intervening period... continue to provide a very, very negligible set of outputs important to the American economy.

We ought to be exporting from America.

I think there is also a circular effect, that is, if you know that you can efficiently build a pipeline, folks will go look for in other places as well.

I am actually--I am working on some legislation to give FERC a little more authority in trying to streamline this process.

A global Internet free from government control is in the best interests of all Americans.

Today, I stand here on the 40th anniversary of one of the worst decisions of our United States Supreme Court. It was deeply flawed. Too many Justices spoke of emanations of penumbras but missed the core principle contained in the…

Today, I rise to talk about a bird, the Lesser Prairie Chicken. Actually, it's not about the bird; it's about jobs. I happen to represent Cassoday, Kansas, the American capital of the Lesser Prairie Chicken. The Environmental Protection…

Today I rise in support of the 1,300 citizens of Buhler, Kansas--and indeed all Kansans--and in fact all Americans who value religious freedom and religious liberty. The citizens of Buhler are under assault. They are the latest victims of…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When you think of coal and jobs, you don't necessarily think of Kansas. But in Kansas we depend on affordable, abundant energy to build airplanes, to grow crops--all of the things that come with affordable energy…