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?

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.

First of all, I would like to thank Chairman Kline for his work on this bill and for working with my office on several provisions that affected the Impact Aid Program. I believe this bill goes a long way to improving the Impact Aid…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 373, lines 11 through 22, strike paragraph (1), and redesignate the succeeding paragraphs accordingly…

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I introduced a bill, H.R. 1097, that would ensure the on-duty times not included on--not include waiting times and natural gas and oil sites for operators of commercial vehicles transporting supplies and equipment.

I almost crack up all the time when I hear agencies saying we had a comment period, a comment period, a comment period.

There is a fine line between a 7 percent profit margin and being able to reinvest in your company, and 6 percent profit margin when you just try to maintain your equipment.

I have said this over and over again that our biggest threat anymore to our companies are Federal Government trying to comply and still be profitable.

For you to make suggestions is saying that every party that graduates from a college with a business degree is going to be successful in business.

I stand before you today not only as a Member of Congress but as a concerned American. As a country, we cannot continue to ignore ObamaCare's impact on jobs and small businesses. This past Friday, our Nation witnessed yet another rise in…

One size doesn't fit all. If we can allow the States to sit back and do their job--now, if the States aren't taking care of it, fine.

I find it pretty interesting that the gentleman who is thinking out of the box gets hit on the most.

It is absurd to me that the EPA is going to start coming on our land trying to tell us how to take care of stuff we have been doing for years.

Something needs to be checked in on this panel. I really hope this doesn't have to do with an agenda.

I stand before you today not only as a Member of Congress, but as a concerned business owner angered by the fact that ObamaCare may be putting my companies at financial risk. Currently, those businesses employ over 120 people in the State…

I think you will find out that in T&I we have an interest, and we can usually agree that we truly want to get the problems fixed.

the frustration, the lack of common sense that we see that comes out of this place all the time is literally what drove me here.