"Would 'drill here, drill now' last summer, if implemented as proposed, have made any difference in the retail price of gasoline during last summer?"
"I can predict it right here, right now. Consumers are going to be paying well over $3 a gallon by Memorial Day."
"I have asked, to be fair, President Clinton, who refused to file a complaint against OPEC, President Bush, who refused to file a complaint against OPEC, and we will soon be asking President Obama to f..."
"We would love--and I think the Chairman shares--we would love to discuss this issue further and see if we could help move that along."
"I never understood that position. Are we going to do it overseas?"
"We don't have to give in to any international covenant to have that."
"We can't assume if we build it they will come."
"If we are looking at Canada as a competition, you still have your local fees per container."
"Unfortunately, there is no $4 billion surplus. There are $4 billion worth of IOUs in the harbor maintenance trust fund."
"I always like to encourage the use of two by fours since I have a number of manufacturers in my district."
"Thank you. Just to follow-up with Mr. Asplund, you very definitively said that the current fee structure is causing diversion."