People asked me about the State of the Union Address and where I found common ground with the President, and he listed and articulated very clearly he wanted to be able to speed up the regulatory process and the speed of that for Federal…

We must realize that regulation have a cumulative cost, and eventually the consumer will rebel or just give up.

CO2 emissions are down for three reasons.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government.

I thank you for this opportunity.

we're now at a spot it wasn't that long ago 60 percent of the oil that we were using in the United States was imported. Now 60 percent of the oil that we're using in the United States is from the United States

The EPA has proposed carbon emission standards, which forces roughly 50 percent reduction in CO2 emissions from new coal plants.

Americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them.

A diverse fuel package seems to be essential in this process, and trying to find that correct formula on that.

we're only 20 percent away from being North American energy independent, which I think is the first step towards being American energy independent.

How you get it. Right. I understand that, is the how you get there to the balance point also matters.

So current path, that is with the SGR cuts, that is with everything else.

Basically have to be able to deal with the consequences and the issues.

Is there an economic benefit to balancing our budget?

I interact with a lot of families that have a challenge of understanding this as they walk through the document.

I thank the gentleman. Back home last week, I had a gentleman who came up to me who said, ``I make $80,000 a year between my wife and me. That has always been enough until now. With the economy's slowing down and prices continuing to…

It is my pleasure to be here. Thank you. The National Prayer Breakfast coming up this week is a great reminder to us as a Nation just to be able to slow down, not as Republicans and Democrats, but as Americans, to be able to come together…

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Well, in a few days, we're going to have to resolve the fiscal cliff--ironically enough, something that the House of Representatives passed last May. In April, we set out a tax plan. In May, we set out a sequestration plan, passed it…

I find that hard to believe, based on your report that you are tracking what is occurring...

Well, this is an interesting conversation when you deal with how this all came about. In January of 2009, the Sierra Club and several other organizations sued the EPA to expand their authority, to expand what was the law. The EPA ruled out…

They had too few people, they were trying to take on this massive task.

Right. And when senior leadership, they do not inform the attorney general when Brian Terry is murdered, that there is a federal nexus to this as well in this ongoing investigation, again, that seems to be we are just kind of surrounding…

I think a lot of people have asked these same questions and just wanted some answers.

Why does FBI have one process supervising investigations; ATF has a very, very different process on that?