Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding. Mr. Speaker, let's look at this process. Here we have a bill that was a bipartisan bill, H.R. 4447, that passed out of the committee on a bipartisan vote, and it was eight pages. It was eight pages. Today, this bill is nearly 900 pages. Miraculously, from committee to the floor, it just exploded and became nearly 900 pages of text. This bill is now scored to cost the American taxpayers $135 billion. This is an issue that we agree that we need to be discussing. We need to be discussing America's energy future. We need to be discussing the fact that Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, and other countries are trying to decimate the American energy industry. They are trying to force our dependence upon them. Unfortunately, while there are some good components of this bill, much of it plays into the hands of those very countries by forcing the use or pushing the use of technologies by manipulating markets, by distorting costs, that forces us to play into the hands of those countries and become subject or dependent upon them for different resources. {time} 1130 Mr. Speaker, the United States, as I have heard people talk about emissions, we are the leader in the world in terms of reducing emissions. The United States has reduced emissions more than every other country. People talk about emissions reduction. Under President Obama, there was the Clean Power Plan.…”