Ultimately, this needs to be repealed. It is creating great anxiety in the marketplace.

I take it at my own risk. If my vehicle breaks down, I am on my own.

What I can tell you, congressman, is if one believes that you can take a Government mandate and force the creation of a technology, which I believe is a silly notion.

EPA's actions to approve E15 despite scientific evidence showing millions of automobiles could face engine and fuel system damage is an unnecessary risk to consumers, to automobiles, and to small engines.

In 1979, the Government, at that point, Jimmy Carter was president, in the famous malaise speech made a speech to say that by the year 2000, because the Federal Government was going to coordinate all these efforts, 20 percent of the energy…

In the past week, Texas and Oklahoma have experienced a storm. We lost 6 in Lake Granbury, Texas; 2 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on Sunday; and 24 in Moore, Oklahoma, including 10 children and 14 adults. We have been overwhelmed with the number…

I assume that you are requiring some basic background checks...

Would they be required like many States, my State included, that they have errors and omissions insurance if you are handling insurance information?

There will be some questions and we have to figure out the process on that.

Congress has an important oversight role to ensure the Administration follows the law during its implementation efforts.

I strongly believe that the Affordable Care Act actually creates more problems than it solves.

So you make an assumption that because the law says you need to have this, even though the law specifically states that only navigators go to Federal exchanges...

Can I ask just a quick question, as well, on the background?

So can the State, then, require to have a licensing as well?

We have absolutely seen an increase in production, and that is based on new technology dealing with horizontal drilling and fracking.

Is it a result of Obama Administration policies that we have increased oil and gas?

We need to find every way that we can to be energy independent as quickly as we can.

I would suggest that there are a lot of producers around the Country that would argue with that statement, that there hasn't been something to impede the production of energy.

I believe we should be exporting.

According to the Regional Security Officer at the time in Tripoli, John Martinec, they did not.

Again, according to the Regional Security Officer in Tripoli, John Martinec, they were very weak, yes.

We have got to learn the lessons of the past. This happened in 1998. We allowed it to happen again.

In Philadelphia, an abortion clinic murder trial is about to go to the jury next week for the death of four children and one adult. The one adult was killed by an overdose of drugs that she was given during the abortion procedure. The four…

We exist to secure two fundamental principles: first, that Americans have the right to know the money Washington takes from them is well spent; and, second, Americans deserve an efficient, effective Government that works for them.

We should have a very flexible account that wraps around any third-party plan and then let the market determine how much should be paid by the patient and how much by the third-party payer.