At the same time, he is calling for more oil and gas. His administration has 10 different Federal agencies considering ways to overregulate hydraulic fracturing.

Over 12,000 jobs, American jobs have left the country because of that one decision by President Obama.

The President is trying to blame somebody else, and it is some speculator.

Over the next 5 years, if we are not allowed to use natural gas, it will by and large take off the table 45 percent of our gas production, 17 percent of our oil production by stopping the use of that proven technology.

Has there ever been one instance, Mr. Gerard, that you can point to that it has ever gotten into groundwater?

Why do you think that we have done it for--it is not a new technology. We have done it for a long time. Why all the sudden all this talk about it is so bad?

The President's own energy secretary says 'Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.'

It is important that we hear from the private sector to assess whether President Obama's executive order is working to ease the day-to-day regulatory burdens on American companies.

Well, these other departments seem to have approved. We heard from Mr. Barton about that. Why are they so nimble and you are so slow?

If excuses were barrels of oil, this administration would have filled out strategic petroleum reserves several times over.

The truth of the matter is the administration had 3 years to reach a decision on Keystone XL but failed to do so.