"So I am astounded by the fact that if we were to really become energy independent, to really go after the energy that we have, to produce that and to use it ourselves, the job creation, the tax revenu..."
"The President and the Administration talk often about production and how production has increased. Can anyone identify an element that this Administration has done to increase production?"
"It is as if the train is moving and they ran and jumped in the engineer's position and said, hey, look, I'm at the front of the train."
"No one--I repeat, no one cares more about the water resources of Oklahoma than Oklahomans and the people who live there."
"The assumption that Federal regulators from other States understand the geologic strata and energy process better than State enforcement is beyond credible."
"I also do not accept the assumption that local regulators cannot be trusted because they have political pressures that would discourage enforcement but Federal regulators have only pure motives and no..."
"I am very skeptical that thousands of wells and many different types of rock and soil conditions across the country can be overseen from Washington better than by State leaders who know the people and..."
"The importance of Uintah County is very simple--50 percent of all the jobs in that particular county are tied up with the extraction industry; 65 percent of all of the natural gas that is produced in ..."
"Sometimes when you actually establish regulation when there is no problem, the usual result is some kind of overreach in coming up with an abstract that does not fit the reality that happens to be the..."
"I understand. Right now there has been an incredible shift on it. This has been known for several years, as I mentioned, the 2005 legislation."
"As Representative Lankford correctly pointed out, it was interesting because the reports of no health impact would always come out on a Friday afternoon at about 4 p.m."
"I would like to have unanimous consent to add to the record a letter from the Governor of Wyoming mentioning that he feels the rules are very duplicative to what they already do in Wyoming and this wi..."