"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 land."
"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 ..."
"The assumption that Federal regulators from other States understand the geologic strata and energy process better than State enforcement is beyond credible."
"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..."
"Most recently on May 11, 2012, in Dimock, Pennsylvania, EPA quietly released what was initially a panic to say that frac fluids caused all that, they have come back now and said, we were wrong."
"I have obvious concerns on USAID, and some of it is because of the strategy, the Forward strategy that they have."
"But I also hear, every time that there is an issue that comes up in any department... the first thing the other side of the aisle rises up and says is, you know what, this wouldn't be an issue if we h..."
"We have employees there that are actually in debt bondage that we are bringing in from third-world countries."
"We have an enormous amount of waste that is happening by the millions of dollars in some of our USAID programs."
"Let me pick up on what Mr. DeFazio was just talking about, Mr. Nicholson. Just in time delivery, I know very few businesses in my district that don't do just in time delivery."
"Here is a hard question for us as a nation to struggle with. We have people in great need..."