"I wanted to ask Mr. Chapple to convey my congratulations to the first Director of the National Park Service in five years."
"Maine is the third-ranked state, as it has the third highest portion of our GDP coming from outdoor recreation of any state in the country."
"What my legislation will do is simply say, 'We want you to do a study of what the impact will be on domestic prices.'"
"We are exporting our principal advantage in the world economy. We are literally subsidizing Chinese manufacturing by sending them our natural gas."
"There is one law that this Congress cannot repeal--the law of supply and demand."
"If exports were limited to a surplus, then it would not affect domestic prices, but it has to be affecting domestic prices and it is getting serious now."
"We are squandering an advantage right now because of uncontrolled exports of natural gas."
"I think often politicians, and particularly presidents, get blamed for gas prices which, in fact, fluctuate substantially as we know based upon oil prices and fluctuations in the market, rarely from e..."
"We are racing blindly into a future and cutting off our most significant economic advantage vis-a-vis the rest of the world, particularly China."
"I want to make it clear here and now on the record that I, for one, would be very willing and able to enter into constructive discussions with my Republican colleagues on what they would like in the b..."
"Congress and our--actually the drafters of our Constitution anticipated that the Congress would have a role in making or altering the laws of elections."