Markwayne Mullin

I am disappointed that you are a board member of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and you are abandoning our U.S. ports.

We got to fight for, it is good American jobs, and there are good American jobs at our ports.

You are shipping 40 percent of your product through Canadian ports, which means basically you are avoiding the Harbor Maintenance Tax.

Unless we turn the curve so we are looking at a growing pie in economic development, we don't get to the real core issue, which is jobs.

This has the opportunity to be the most important piece of legislation we work on this year.

And it took bipartisan cooperation from--they are not Batman and Robin, but two that I would like to call out are former Member Jerry Costello from the State of Illinois and also my colleague and friend John Shimkus for their bipartisan…

It is a great honor I have to introduce our honored guest. Governor Mary Fallin, from the great State of Oklahoma.

We need to have a long-term bill. You know it.

Why was this administration putting that out to begin with, if it wasn't politically driven?

The President openly says that he has a war on coal.

I appreciate the bipartisan support from my colleague from Arizona and definitely the support from the other side of the aisle that so often is needed inside this House. Mr. Speaker, at this time, I yield as much time as he may consume to…

It is a lot of political science versus sound science.

We describe our area, the State, now as 'poverty with a view,' and that is what it has become.

But let me tell you how stupid it is in my State as to how that listing works.

In fact, if there is one common thread that I have heard in all these discussions, it centers in two areas.

I want to work with you however possible. So if you run up against hurdles that my office can be helpful with, would you please reach out to us?

I appreciate you coming in here. Obviously you are rather popular today in this meeting, and you have got a tough situation.

Obviously we want to continue our economic growth, and the only way we do that is being able to move our products from A to B.

If we are going to raise taxes on trucks, heavy trucks, and we don't dedicate all of it to truck projects, then we should also increase taxes at a commensurate level for passenger vehicles.

In order to move forward on any business, you have to invest in it.

Well, with, you know, respect to my colleague's comment about the electric vehicle, her and I have discussed this, my diesel truck more than pays her way.

I appreciate your service, I mean, truly, getting it to the public and willing to invest...

Unfunded mandates that are coming out of this city is killing smaller areas.

I am giving mine back to the Treasury.

The first responders isn't FEMA, the first responders are the men and women back home like our volunteer fire department.