Bill Cassidy

It seems like in these regional planning councils, the very nature of who is placed on the council and their relative representation will tilt itself toward the result.

If all we are given is a place for people to vent their prejudices, how does that advance our cause?

So, I guess I am a little suspicious about this, which may be, if you will, stacked with folks hostile to energy development.

The rush to do something in a wrong way has harmful consequences for humans that would not have occurred if done in the right way.

My staff has spoken to service providers in my district who tell us that there appears to be a preference for lower-bandwidth wireless coverage over higher-bandwidth wireline.

I am looking at the amount of emissions, not by forestry, but just by agriculture and, according to the CRS report I am reading, in the last something years it has gone from 460 million metric tons of CO2 to 582.

Anyone who drives a car, heats or cools their home, or eats food will be affected by the legislation we're discussing today.

So, to put a point on that, as of right now, you don't know the prevalence in the unaffected caves?

I presume that you have gone to caves where the bats are not infected to see if this is part of the normal flora.

We need a large, healthy bat population in the United States and across the planet. Bats are important to agriculture.

It seems like this is an opportunistic infection, if you will.

Wouldn't it be prudent to continue the program and conduct a study that actually compares students who use scholarships to those in the DC public schools to determine achievement effects?

Mr. Secretary, I know I was not in Congress when the original DC Opportunity Scholarship Program passed...

The problem isn't the rig activity, it is the absence or presence of policing.

But I think what we have learned is, from the testimony, that there is more damage from tankers than there is from offshore drilling.

We can't prove a negative. We can't prove that there is going to be no 30-year effect of having a spill someplace, correct?

If you look at the NOAA reports, the Flower Garden Coral Reefs in the Mississippi/Texas area are actually fairly healthy.

Instead of saying boroughs, you should have said parishes. I would have understood that completely. Let us talk English here.

It almost seems like there is a prejudice against this process that is not based upon science.

Then I will say that, because there is also a presumption that offshore oil and gas exploration hurts coral reefs.

Now, I may interrupt, because I gathered that. And you are not from Louisiana, and I think we have the most productive fisheries in the lower 48.