Steve Scalise

The IRS serves as a poster child for what happens when a federal agency thinks that they are no longer accountable to the American taxpayer.

I am glad that we are having a hearing on FCC process reform.

There has been a lot of attempts over the last few years to try to move legislation through Congress to address this in different ways.

The IP Commission report that Senator Gorton was part of, and really helped lead, estimates a $300 billion a year lost in our economy, and over 2 million jobs.

The timeframe is not moving fast enough.

Consumers have been demanding this freeing up of spectrum because of the speed of which the devices...

I hope you understand that. But then looking forward to 2014, can we be assured, can you give us assurance that by November 30th, we would have those rules available for 2014?

I am a strong supporter of repeal of the renewable fuel standard; I cosponsored legislation to do that.

You are like a year--a half year late already.

We are starting to get a lot more questions from constituents, as they recognize the impact of the renewable fuel standards

I think those are very reasonable requests, and we are fighting in this committee to try to create that certainty so that your company and so many others throughout this country can go and create those jobs and create that American energy.

I think the fact that we are here in a committee hearing in Congress talking about how technology and energy is revolutionizing our country...

Our States do that already so that you don't have a need to duplicate things that are already being done successfully.

So when you work in the Department of Energy and you have a study you commission that shows that LNG exports would have no real positive impact on our economy...

Did you quantify jobs, economic impact?

When I gave my opening, I talked a little bit about the export facility at Cheniere, their investment alone represents about $10 billion.

This is something that I think if you look across America, there are going to be more opportunities as we explore this revolution in shale with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

I look forward to working with you on that and... I appreciate that. I know we will have more of this conversation in the future but thanks for coming.

You can't be for all of the above when you are saying no to Keystone, when you are making it harder to actually explore on federal lands for American energy.

It is disingenuous for the Administration to go out and say, you know, and the President himself to say since I have been President, energy production has never been higher, when in fact his policies on federal lands have actually reduced…

We disagree with the President's definition of 'all of the above.' It seems to be more focused on above and nothing below, which is not all of the above.

I know over the years a lot of us have been pushing for a true all-of-the-above energy strategy to open up more areas that are right now blocked for exploration in America...

I would think the subcommittee would be wise to revise and expand the STELA debate.

Representative Scalise's bill, the Next Generation Television Marketplace Act, does this.

I would just ask if you could share that with the committee as you are developing those definitions of incentives.