Ed Whitfield

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following new section: Sec. __. None of the funds made available…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Kentucky will be postponed.

I would like to explain, number one, why I am offering this amendment and then explain, number two, specifically what this amendment does. The reason it is in handwriting is that, after we submitted the printed amendment, we had a…

I thank the gentleman, and I yield back the balance of my time. Amendment No. 26 Offered by Mr. Barrow of Georgia

I support knowing regulatory certainty so we will know that these things can't be drug out.

Thank you, Representative Pompeo and the cosponsors of H.R. 1900 for introducing this legislation.

I want to thank Representative Pompeo for his work on H.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act.

I am delighted that Mr. Pompeo has introduced H.R. 1900 to help us focus on this issue.

It has become quite clear, I think, to most people that FERC lacks the ability to enforce agency decisional deadlines related to these natural gas pipeline applications.

I hope that as we work on this physician payment reform that we also take a serious look and solve the so-called prompt pay issue.

I think it's time to take a hard look at the RFS and compare our original expectations for the program with the actual experience.

Policies that delay or prevent energy exports are detrimental to energy producing states like Kentucky, and they hurt the nation as a whole.

I would like to call this hearing to order, and today's hearing is entitled 'U.S. Energy Abundance and the Regulatory, Market, and Legal Barriers to Export.'

I appreciate that very much.

If our trading partners don't get their coal or natural gas from us, they will very likely get it from another energy-exporting nation.

More important than the opportunity to reduce global poverty and increase the standard of living because of the millions of people in the world who do not have electricity.

Our trade deficit last year in the United States was $539 billion.

We also are the number one natural gas producer in the world in 2010 because of recent discovery in shale fields.

the President recently had made comments that he was considering requiring all federal agencies to consider the climate change effect, including global impacts of their actions.

But in my view, the major obstacle to energy exports from this country is the Obama Administration.

More important than the trade deficit of last year, $455 billion--$573 billion, more important than that.

The last thing we need is the kind of years-long bureaucratic delays comparable to what we have seen with Keystone XL.

The reality is that market forces will determine the amount and to what extent we export our energy from the U.S.

We all want to reduce our trade deficit and perhaps one day have a trade surplus.

I think that is not something that we need very much of.