It is going to cost American lives.
But I think this is important. The way I read the math, you are not reducing their benefits.
How is that fair or appropriate? Don't we have to do something about that?
Well, you are showing $30 billion in savings. Like I said, it is not coming out of the air. It is coming from somewhere.
We cannot make a mistake because it may be 10 years before it manifests itself.
Well, thinking long term it seems to me a simple solution is to cap the amount of exports as a percentage of domestic production.
I subscribe to President Reagan's admonition, 'Trust, but verify.'
I think this moment will be looked back at, at a time when Americans say what were you thinking when we have, what I call, America's second ...
I cannot understand this discussion that will inevitably lead to higher energy costs.
Accept a cap on the export so that we don't end up with Australia.
If there's no limit here and there's no definition of the public interest in the statute that these guys are administering, I'm just saying ...