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.

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.

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.

Thank you for this opportunity to stand up and, not just represent our side of the aisle, but represent the business owners that are having to go through this struggle of the shifting sands constantly underneath their feet, and take time…

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

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

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

I am giving mine back to the Treasury.

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

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…

Thank you for this opportunity to rise up in opposition against this horrible tax. You know, this is an opportunity we have to work with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle; and these days it doesn't seem like that happens too…

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

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

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.

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

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…

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 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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.