Kevin Cramer

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I thank my colleagues who have helped cosponsor this important amendment. Mr. Chairman, I think that the author of the amendment did a great job in discerning between 3 days and 30 minutes, as 30…

The most basic responsibility of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is to protect the people. We protect our senior citizens' economic security with Social Security. We protect our country with our national…

Never did efficiency trump transparency because transparency leads to trust.

I want to do for the United States what we have been able to do for North Dakota, lest the United States do to North Dakota what they have done to the rest of the country.

I think it does, but it doesn't alleviate my concern because with your court example, wouldn't it be easier if we just had the states permitting as part of the enforcement mechanism rather than have a court...

I raise it because I wonder how many more times we could duplicate this throughout the system.

I thought the GAO report was fantastic frankly.

I think that it is incumbent upon us now, as policymakers and eventually appropriators, to look for opportunities to prioritize some of the programs.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman from Illinois and ranking member from New York, for acknowledging rural America.

Well, you are a very articulate spokesman and advocate on behalf of local broadcasting, and I appreciate your taking the time and your expertise. By the way, you did pose it in the form of a question. I suppose some people can look at…

You raise very important points. Again, I appreciate the reminder that, while we are, today, educating, informing, and celebrating local broadcasting, it is at risk; that we can take our eye off the ball, that we can assume or presume some…

If the gentleman from Texas would yield, you raised an important point that I hadn't thought about that is sort of natural and obvious, and that is, if you are going to be a good local broadcaster, obviously you have to be a good local…

Great points. Thank you so much for participating. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe).

If the gentleman wouldn't mind, I would like to ask a question. I know we didn't rehearse this, but in this era of all kinds of new information technologies available and ways of getting information, streaming and cell phones and…

The absence of Congress acting on, say, cap and trade, or choosing to not pass cap and trade, should not be viewed as neutrality by the people's House, or by the people's representatives, and somehow a license, therefore, to go ahead and…

I am having a hard time knowing where to begin, because I have so many issues, but I think I will start with the Waters of the U.S. rule.

To me, it is obvious that the patchwork, the inconsistency potential, the uncertainty that would be created by self-implementation and enforcement by courts, that is a problem.

I want to address the climate change issue because I think it is an important issue to a lot of people. The argument that the other side makes is based on the false idea that somehow oil sands are not going to be developed without the…

This gets to my concern about a calming scientific approach versus a sort of hysterical approach if you want to know the truth.

I do believe if I threw a match in Bakken crude oil, it would not light. Gasoline and ethanol would.

I certainly don't disagree with that although I do think that Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is probably going to take up--

Are there plans to broaden the study considering all the plays that might be out there and all the potential there might be for a lot more of this product to be moved by rail?

But if one is a number 1 and one is a number 2, it seems that the number 1, which in this case is light crude, would be more flammable, more ignitable than the other.

So I want to get then to Chairman Broun's illustration and realize maybe you can't answer it from a compound standpoint, so let me ask it from a layman's standpoint.

So I want--then I want to get to the packing group designation, which I think you speak to as well in your testimony.