Bill Johnson

Your idea of what is fair and what is not fair defies my understanding of the word.

Clearly the Obama administration picked winners and losers in the bailout process.

Why do you think it is that the Department of the Interior needs more money in 2012 to go back to producing and authorizing permits?

It is certainly alarming to me.

America has no influence, little to no influence on the price of oil.

Protecting U.S. intellectual property is more important than ever.

The threat China poses to American exports is of growing concern.

Ohio is very dependent upon the coal industry. We get about 87 percent of our energy from coal.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to take this opportunity to remind, the rule was reclarified in a 5-year process that ended back in 2008, and now the current administration wants to reopen that rule and redo it completely in just a…

We must stop the drug trafficking organizations and illegal armed groups that threaten the security of Mexico, the United States, and beyond.

Well, I often ask my constituents, what is our number one job? What is the President's number one job? Is it to keep us safe, or is it to keep us free? And of course you get a number of different hands being raised. In my opinion, based on…

Because what happened was when people got a tax break on things that they had to have, they would channel those savings into buying things that they wanted to have and that they had been saving up for with their families. And other States…

Well, what it was, it eliminated sales tax on certain items like back-to-school items, things that people had to have to get their kids back in school, to put them in college and those kinds of things--clothing, school supplies, computers…

I built a grassroots effort to try to address that problem. We were successful in getting a bill introduced into the Ohio State Legislature to put those sales tax programs in place, but it never made it through the system.

Thanks. You hit the nail on the head. We are punishing the job creators. I mentioned in Ohio, only three States have lost more jobs since that stimulus bill went into effect. Now, I don't know the exact number today, but in November…

We have a disease here in Washington, and that disease is called ``overspending.'' And it is, by and large, what has brought us economically to where we are today. And the debt that we see is the symptom of that disease. It's amazing to me…

But on January 20, 2009, the Obama Administration decided to re-open the carefully crafted and properly vetted stream buffer zone rule.

Help us restore our bay. Help us restore this beautiful, beautiful national treasure.

I am grateful to be here today to listen to the testimony of so many of our experts, our colleagues who, like me, share responsibility for the Chesapeake Bay.

I think that it is really clear that despite all the resources that we have put into Chesapeake Bay protection and restoration, that we haven't been as successful as we would like to have been.

I have been an advocate on Bay issues for about the 25 years that I have lived in the region.

And so we have a responsibility in this region, but there is also a responsibility for industry.

The challenge facing the Chesapeake Bay is not one that's solved by great platitudes or ideological debates.

The Bay is, as President Obama recently put it, a national treasure.

I just urge the Congress to remember that woody biomass is a finite resource and there is truly a best use of wood out there.