Ed Markey actually said...

"The Majority said their drilling bills were necessary to pay for transportation funding. Yet, the three bills reported out of this committee would generate less than 10 percent of the revenue shortfal..."

"The Majority should not be imposing a de facto natural gas tax on American agriculture, manufacturing in chemical, steel, and plastics by allowing our natural gas to be exported."

"We should keep that here for our own industries, our own farmers, our own consumers."

"The Majority's drilling bills may be good for the members of the American Petroleum Institute, but they are not good for the American people."