Political Quotes

“I appreciate the majority leader making this arrangement. I was wanting to get a little more time than that. However, let me just mention two bills that I plan one to reintroduce, another to introduce, which I think are timely tonight because of something that is going to happen tomorrow. Tomorrow I am going to reintroduce a bill making it clear that States are sole regulators of the hydraulic fracturing process, and there is a reason for bringing this up in the next bill. I am pleased to be joined by Senators Vitter, Portman, Roberts, Enzi, Sessions, Coburn, Crapo, Risch, Scott, Cruz, Hatch, Johnson, and Lee. Since 2008, domestic oil production has increased by 40 percent. This has never happened before. That is just in the last 4 years. Because of the new applications for such processes as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, we have been able to do this. But the most interesting thing is that with a 40-percent increase, 100 percent of that has been in State or in private land. That is critical, because we keep hearing from this administration that they somehow want to take credit for the fact that we have had an increase in that period of time, when the fact is that has all been done on private land or on State land. None of it has been done on Federal land. In fact, the Congressional Research Service came out earlier this year: All of the increase from FY2007 to FY2012 took place on non-federal lands, and the federal share of total U.S.…”