Let's review. We have $16 trillion in debt, and it's climbing every single day. We have no budget from the Senate for the last 3 years. The President's budget got exactly zero votes in the House and in the Senate. And the Federal…

I may not even use all 2 minutes of that, but I do want to be able to just tell the story a little bit of an Oklahoma farm. The things that they're up against right now are common to farms all across the Midwest. They're dealing with…

There has been a tremendous amount of rhetoric and hyperbole in the conversation today--all this energy about how we are trying to raise taxes on different groups. Let's clear this up. This is about keeping the rates the same for another…

This is what happens when the EPA makes a private agreement, overshoots a State agreement, and says we're going to go in and step in and take over: over $1 billion of additional costs to the ratepayers in Oklahoma, with no difference in…

I thank my colleague for bringing this up, but this again is something that is obviously dealt with already in the text of the bill. As we anticipated, there would be issues like this. On page 3, line 23 of the bill, it actually states the…

One quick statement. This particular rule is unique in a lot of our conversation because it's already gone through the process. Currently, the OIRA office has, in fact, had it for the last 30 days. They could issue this at any point. This…

How unfortunate to have the implication that Members of Congress, including myself--I have workers in my district who live with this same thing--would not have compassion for people in our districts. OSHA has not completed this regulation…

While I can certainly, certainly empathize and have tremendous compassion for the families involved and for the individuals involved in this, OSHA has been working through this rule since 2009. It has been in the advanced rulemaking phase…

Apparently the other side assumes most Americans are corrupt; they're corrupt people who cannot be trusted, and they must be babysat at each moment. Company leaders, company owners, many company employees, city and State leaders have to be…

But we are not evaluating criteria on change, because it is from previous data.

I thank Ms. Foxx, my colleague, for her kind introduction on that. All aspects of this bill, each part of it, has gone through the committee process. Multiple of them have had multiple hearings related to them. There has been plenty of…

Currently we are evaluating, we have an $8.3 billion demonstration program that we are pouring the majority of the money into this year.

So basically you are saying that the Secretary has broad authority, no one has done this ever before...

we are going to spend $8.3 billion on something we are calling a demonstration, but it is very unlikely it is going to produce any results that will help us as a demonstration at all.

So how do we evaluate the effectiveness of this demonstration toward data they don't even know what they are directing toward?

The increased use of guidance documents, rather than actually doing formal rulemaking...

At home, people have just a simple request of Congress: do our job. Just do it. They're tired of worrying about what dumb thing the Federal Government will do to them and their business and their family that will cause them even more pain…

This conversation about red tape is really a big deal.

A million and a half dollars cheaper to do a contract tower. Right now we don't know on safety issue.

I think we need to find that out.

I'm honored to rise in support of H.R. 4402, with my colleague Mark Amodei, and to support this. This is about setting a definitive timeline for permits, which creates certainty and encourages private investment. This is not about…

I think one of the things I would like to get out of the hearing today is impact and feedback from the Panel about how overregulation from Washington is affecting, not only the oil and gas industry, but overall, the economic development in…

It is an unusual thing to bring Washington to Oklahoma. We try to take Oklahoma to Washington.

Americans know more about this law now. Now that it's been sitting around for 2 years, we've had more time to be able to process it. Two years ago, the cost was estimated by CBO at $800 billion. Now it's estimated at $1.8 trillion…

I think that is where I struggle with the process on this.