Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise to highlight what the President's capricious and arbitrary moratorium on American energy production is doing to families. The wife of a rig worker forwarded a letter to me that she sent to the President and to Secretary Salazar saying that while they may not need regular work, she and her family cannot keep going without jobs. Her family has bills to pay which are now 3 months behind, and they will lose almost everything they've ever worked for as a result of this arbitrary moratorium on energy production. Her husband relies on rig exploration jobs, and even sent copies of their bills. She said her bank will not wait out the moratorium to receive her mortgage payment of over $3,000 past due. She said her family will probably lose their cars. They won't even have a car to live in if this thing persists. Due to the moratorium, her husband lost a 30-day exploration job that would pay $732 a day, a total of $21,960 for 30 days. This is an arbitrary and malicious moratorium, and it needs to end. ____________________”