The Republicans believe you don't need the rulemakings at the CFTC. Are they right or wrong, Mr. Secretary?

The rule of thumb is every $10 increase in the price of oil is a quarter or 25 cent increase in the price of gasoline.

I do not intend today to place all of the blame on the President, but I am going to give him some blame.

If we continue to follow his policies, gas prices are not going to go down, they are going to go up.

The increase in production is due to production on private and State lands.

The President and his administration have decided to address energy costs by spending billions of taxpayer dollars to develop electric cars.

As Mr. Whitfield said earlier--Chairman Whitfield said earlier, we need to provide immediate assistance to help consumers.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not a bailout fund for President Obama's failed policies.

I think that is commendable and I do appreciate it, but the prohibition has been very specific about using those funds at the Federal level, State level or local level.

I have seven pages here of 25 specific instances where grantees of HHS receiving money from HHS are explicitly trying to influence laws at the State and local levels relating to all sorts of issues.

one of the things that is a little bit troublesome to me in the President's 2013 budget is that he in essence eliminates part of the anti-lobbying provisions of the use of Federal funds.