Pat McHenry

The anger that my constituents have of the cost at the pumps is very real.

The policies this Administration has put in place have actually increased the cost of fuel at the pumps.

I have not yet heard that they are trying to increase the supply of American oil or our refining capacity.

The production of oil on public lands has actually gone down under your Administration's watch.

Tell me what you have done to reduce the price of gas at the pumps. What policies have you put in place to reduce the price of gas at the pumps?

It is because of my concerns over these issues that I have introduced H.R. 757, the Equitable Treatment of Investors Act.

So, the answer is no?

To have two of nine witnesses be females, I think, is offensive to the dialog that is happening in the public.

I don't think there is any movement afoot in Congress to ban contraception.

When a mandate forces me to add in Ella and Plan B as part of our package, especially as a preventative package which would be 100 percent coverage, so we are responsible for managing that cost, those-- that my signature is completely in…

We view it as an issue of religious liberty.

This is really the crux of this discussion today. You are being forced, money is being taken out of your pocket.

That is a horrible choice. And I am sorry.

So one of my colleagues said that basically the unions pass the hat.

But we also have international competitiveness issues.

I certainly appreciate their willingness to advocate for closed shops for unions.

I want to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for their advocacy against right to work laws in their respective States.

We want to make sure that there is cooperation from the CFPB with those State regulators.

It hasn't even been enacted yet, and so being sure that small businesses are protected, which Congress was concerned about, hasn't happened yet.

It is basically regulation through lawsuit, and the Federal Government already has that authority.

This is absolutely absurd.

At what point are you going to take action?

Thirteen months later.

So an agent was murdered, and your action is to move people around. That seems to me to simply inconvenience people, not to rid them of Federal employment.

You have not taken action. You have not fired anybody. You haven't changed policy.