Don Nickles

The administration's proposal would dramatically scale down the activity in the oil patch.

It is time for it to stand on its own. Enough is enough.

I led the effort to repeal the windfall profits tax. We finally did.

The biggest economic boon to this country has been the explosion of oil and gas activity, primarily because of fracking.

If you do really good tax reform, you do not need energy tax issues. Let the marketplace work.

You cannot afford to make fossil fuels' tax equal to the enormous subsidy that wind currently receives.

Congress passed a bad law called the Windfall Profits Tax. That motivated me to run for Senate more than anything else.

Uncle Sam is writing a check to Warren Buffett to produce windmills--$138 million.

I could not disagree with you more.

We should not be giving advantages to our international competitors over our U.S.-based companies.

I do not defend 199, period. I think Congress--when you are rewriting the tax code, you should have a uniform corporate rate, not a lower rate for manufacturing.

If you no longer allowed intangible drilling costs to be expensed, you would shut down the shale revolution.

This happens to be--the shale gas revolution, as well as the oil revolution, is one of the best things that has happened in this country economically in years.

I think for tax simplicity, you should allow every business to be able to expense certainly its wages.

When we reduce capital gains and corporate dividends to 15 percent, we actually raise more money for the Federal Government.

You would give such a tax advantage to Total, BP, Lukoil, other international oil companies.

I think it would be a disastrous mistake for the Senate if you want the Senate to be a deliberative body.

Lowering the threshold required for cloture, in my opinion, would be a mistake, because that is a threshold that almost by definition requires bipartisan involvement.

The Senate is special for a couple of reasons, but amongst legislative bodies, it is really special because unlike the House and unlike most parliament procedures, members of the Senate have unlimited debate and unlimited opportunities to…

I have absolutely loved working in the Senate. The Senate is a great institution. It is one of the true pillars of democracy in the world, one which people look to with great respect and admiration. I have always been proud to be called a…

I need to know a little bit more about the amendment. The tax credit goes to the employers. Is there any guarantee that money, the tax credit--let's say $20,000 for the service man or woman-- goes to the service man or woman. How do we…

I thank our colleagues for the vote on the last amendment. I especially thank my colleague and friend, Senator Conrad, for his eloquent debate on it, as well as for his support and cosponsorship of the amendment. I think it is a good…

I have every confidence that in comparing President George Bush and Senator John Kerry, that Oklahoma will make it 10 in a row. We will vote overwhelmingly to reelect President George W. Bush as our president.

I would have to look at the figures. The baseline scored by OMB was 521. The baseline scored by CBO was 477. The figure we had before us in the budget resolution, I would want to check. CBO is in the process of revising that. We use CBO…