Ed Markey

We do not need a constitutional amendment. We need a supercommittee congressional agreement now. To the Republicans: do it now. Call President Obama now. Tell him tax breaks for the billionaires, on the table. Tell him defense spending, on…

Oil shale is not a viable resource in the West. It is simply a Wall Street speculation on our public lands.

The bill today that offers up oil shale as an answer to our current economic woes does not really pass the real test, much less achieve any of the stated goals of this Subcommittee.

Instead of attacking commonsense safeguards for clean water, clean air, protections which benefit people like myself in farming and ranching, make the companies use what they have first.

I believe the Markey bill, which would create an annual production incentive fee to ensure that industry uses these resources it already has in hand, would do just that.

We need to be leaders in developing our energy resources.

What Mr. Holt has proposed, what the Democrats have proposed is that we look at the tax breaks that we give to the oil industry, to the mining industries from--as gifts, as gifts from the Federal taxpayers.

These large corporations are getting away with murder. They should be paying their taxes.

These giveaways to the oil industry, we should get them back and balance the budget with them.

I just think that--and perhaps I care too much about, you know, ensuring that we balance the budget.

They are actually going to increase the amount of revenue that comes off of Federal lands that are given to the States rather than keeping it in the Federal Treasury.

The legislation which Mr. Holt and I and the Democrats have introduced would raise $18 billion to--and it would be used to pave over--to pave the roads of our country.

Just, you know, they laid off 10,000 Americans while they made $500 billion over the last 5 years, the these four oil companies, these biggest ones.

The four largest oil companies in the United States made over $500 billion in the last 5 years, but they laid off 10,000 people, which is unbelievable.

A far more rational approach to the economic and energy challenges we face in the United States is to invest in energy conservation measures and sufficiently fund programs to hasten the inevitable transition we need to make to renewable…

Unfortunately, we also take reckless actions as a government.

Over 1,000 scientists wrote and said the Coastal Plain is uniquely sensitive to disturbance, making it virtually impossible to mitigate the effects of oil development.

I oppose it and ask instead that you join the nearly 1 million people from every State in this union who just this past week expressed to our government that no oil drilling should take place in the Arctic Refuge and that, instead, it…

These bills would once again place drill rigs off our beaches up and down the East and West Coasts.

Senator Inhofe and I don't always see eye to eye, but on this issue I have to agree with him.

The four bills we are considering today would only generate one-fifteenth of the revenue that we would need to fund transportation projects for the next six years.

We need a concrete plan. We can pave the way for a transportation bill by ensuring that the American people get a proper return on the resources below public lands.

These companies aren't just the 1 percent. They are the 1 percent plus.

This week Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee introduced legislation that would generate nearly four times as much revenue as these drilling bills through ensuring that oil, gas, and mining companies are paying their fair share.

On the debt deal, the Republicans said it was my way or the highway. On the continuing resolution, they said it was my way or the highway. And now when it comes to funding the transportation bill, they are saying my way or our highways; we…