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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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…

Unfortunately, we also take reckless actions as a government.