Markwayne Mullin

Party politics is causing this gridlock to begin with, and unfortunately we are playing with real people's lives.

If the Oklahoma DOT opted in, we could reduce our truck trips by over 5,000 trucks a year, reduce vehicle miles by 1.8 million miles, and CO2 emissions by 6.8 million pounds annually.

Regrettably this week, we had to wish TransCanada an unhappy fifth birthday. They've now been waiting for 5 years since first applying for the permit for the construction of the Keystone pipeline. Even though this anniversary was an…

Gaming is what has allowed us to invest back into our people, back into our lands.

I appreciate your passion and your fight. I disagree with you quite a bit.

We were told that FEMA wasn't going to pay for out-of-State contractors to come in and help us.

When an ice storm came in, we were having issues with being able to bring in utility companies over the State line to help with repairs to our electric system.

According to the most recently released numbers by the Congressional Budget Office, ObamaCare is now going to cost the American taxpayers nearly $1.4 trillion. With our national debt sitting at $16.8 trillion and rising every single day, I…

The point that I am trying to make is we are continuously passing this on, one after the next, and we are costing the economy money when we have true infrastructure needs.

I am still floored by the fact that since 2005, just trucks alone has raised from $40 to $105, and I am still trying to figure out how that is good.

The biggest threat to my business is Federal regs and trying to compete at the same time and trying to grow causes conflict.

But, at the same time, that is what this country has continued to have done over and over again is look to our President for some type of leadership, and we have yet to actually see that.

I think, clearly, the difficulty of this problem is going to require Congress and the administration, House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats, to work together.

Before we can get a project--we have to plan today before we can get a project. It is 3 to 5 years before we can get to see the dirt start moving.

If we don't figure out a way to actually capture that, then we are literally just doing what Government continues to do and we just put a Band-Aid on it when we really need stitches.

Does either one have an idea of where we are going to be in 20 years, the shortfalls we are going to have or the infrastructure needs that we are going to be facing?

There is no way that is actually going to go anywhere. I mean, we are going to take more money out of DOD when they are already struggling with the cuts that we have already proposed to them, and we are going to propose more cuts?

But I have, in my experience, every time the government gets involved in it they seem to make it a lot worse.

But what we continue to see from the President and his type of leadership is that he is literally blindly leading his ideals down the road.

We do a pretty good job regulating ourselves. And we haven't had one incident or anybody in the country that we can show that has contaminated any water.

Ma'am, when we say 'all-of-the-above energy,' we are attacking coal, so I don't buy that.

But with all due respect, this President hasn't employed anybody. And so I don't know if he understands the ripple effect that is going to happen.

I find it hypocritical that they are going to punish the coal industry because of an ideological idea that he has.

He says, 'I have job packages, I have job packages,' but yet his war on coal is going to punish exactly those people that he says on one side of his mouth he is trying to protect.

The idea that you have been in the private sector, you understand about leadership, and you understand how important leadership is.