The more compliance officers that we hire to be able to fill out paperwork and be able to submit it back to EPA and other agencies, the slower our economy becomes.

The more that we can hand back to the States, and the fewer things that we're trying to do from DC...

If this plan continues to move forward in a way that is not consistent with science, the actions of the EPA could dramatically increase the cost of every product in America, based on a single decision.

I just don't hear anyone that I am interacting with saying, you know, if we just get to $26 trillion in debt, I think we will be fine.

Well, they would definitely have a pretty hard hit on it, on how they are going to handle it.

I am kind of astounded by that to say, well, add a tax burden on them, which will cause them to drill less and to research less for things like IDCs and such.

As a general principle, though, and following up on Mr. Woodall's comments as well, as a general principle, if you subsidize something, you get more of it; if you tax something, you get less of it.

My fear is right now we are more worried about balancing the budget and what effect that will have on our economy than we are about dealing with our debt.

Like to keep it that way.

I see the other side of this, to say $26 trillion is a more frightening thing to me that balancing the budget is a frightening thing to me on that.

For a lot of independent producers around the country, they have three to five employees.

When I came on January 5, this year's budget deficit was projected to be $1.4 trillion.

I have no issue with all forms of energy. I have an issue with going and punishing one group.

What I am hearing are terms like sustainable deficits, that doesn't seem to be working towards getting it under control.

I do rise in support of H.R. 72. When the framers of the Constitution started writing, they began article I, section 1, with a simple and clear statement: ``All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress.'' After a…

I'd like to borrow, I'd like to expand, I'd like to hire more people, but currently the bank is hiring more compliance officers and we are doing less lending.

Well, let me just say to you, from the Oklahoma perspective, there has been growth in that area.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

That would be terrific.

What I don't want is our commercial aircraft to have to have two different systems to be able to cross.

Thank you for yielding time. Madam Speaker, the repeated diatribe from Members on the other side of the aisle that somehow they are the only individuals in this Chamber who care about the health of American families demonstrates again the…

I rise in support of one of the most basic functions of any government. Three thousand years ago, a mom taught her son, the king, how to be a wise ruler. We have her words written down in Proverbs 31, where she told him, ``Speak for those…