tax-exempt financing ought to be about general obligation bonds. It ought to be about the needs of the States to finance infrastructure and the like, and this is a terrible distortion.

Given the President's comments in the State of the Union--and I thought he was spot on in terms of talking about infrastructure and roads and bridges and rails--I really hope that this is an area that can become a prime focus of your work.

you cannot have a Big League period of economic growth with Little League transportation systems

in accordance with rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I submit the rules governing the procedure of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for publication in the Congressional Record. I ask unanimous…

I think some of my colleagues had a little bit of a taste of how outrageous this has gotten.

We have millions of people, these working-class, middle-class people, who are pinched.

This is an urgent matter. These are not people who ought to get hammered. They have done nothing wrong.

As long as we keep passing them, I think it is going to be tough to get the long-term reform.

This is not a partisan issue; this is an abuse, a flagrant abuse, of the tax code.

This is something that is way wrong.

We don't think that energy, and particularly natural gas, should be a partisan issue.

I do think, and as you know in our testimony we do call for the best quality information in this process.

When it comes to natural gas, America is truly the land of opportunity.

We ask this Congress to act and close these dangerous loopholes which deprive Americans of the basic protections they have come to expect.

We want the Guard, whose work we support and admire, to have the tools.

But it seems to me we are now moving in the direction of adding another component, and that is value.

About as good a value as we can get in this country.

But it looks like you 3 souls have been willing to stay here as we got up and came back.

Gas is 50 percent cleaner than other fossil fuels, and it is a major reason why American CO2 emissions have actually gone down in recent years.

I intend to fight it with whatever means I have at my disposal.

new BLM rules must require best practices for fracking and protect environment and health.

Do not get rid of them. Do not divest them.

An affordable, stable gas supply provides a competitive advantage for American business that can spark a U.S. manufacturing renaissance.

I was telling Senator Murkowski I came to the U.S. Senate in 1996, the first new senator from Oregon in 30 years.

For the first time in decades, our Nation will be able to rely on its own U.S. energy resources.