I thank my good friend from Texas for hosting this hour. I actually do think this administration has an energy policy, and it's all about shutting down all of the domestic use of the resources we've been blessed with in this country. It's…

Apollo 14 launched on January 31, 1971, on its third trip to the Moon. Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell composed the Apollo's eighth manned mission to the lunar surface. Also on board were seeds from several common varieties…

I thank my friend and colleague from the great State of New York, where our congressional districts adjoin at that New York-Pennsylvania border. I am really proud to be with you on the floor today to talk about this game changer, as you…

I want to thank my good friend from New York. It's an honor to be joined by Congressman Altmire from Pennsylvania as well. Because this Marcellus natural gas is certainly a game changer for Pennsylvania. I think it's a game changer for the…

Those fractures, folks will sometimes be scared by that. They envision these huge caverns that are opened up under the ground. And in fact, these fractures, or fissures I think they are best described, and you have probably seen them…

Sure. Absolutely. I think that if my good friend would go ahead and put that other board that's up, because when you are talking about the fluid, there is a lot of discussion sometimes about hydrofracking fluid. And this is I think a great…

That is my understanding, my observations, where on one site, where this drilling activity goes on, takes up to perhaps 90 days to drill and to frack one of these wells, you can put multiple, at least up to six, on one site. So in terms of…

Yes. If the gentleman would yield, absolutely. It's 99.5 percent is water and sand. The other half a percent is made up of basically ingredients that you would find in many household items as referenced from the chart. You know, there are…

It just stays with the geology down there, and this is like it's a mile below the aquifer. It's actually encased in layers of limestone, especially in Pennsylvania and in New York. That's our geology. We have this Marcellus shale, but it's…

I think the gentleman is very accurate, and it's multiple, multiple piping with cement in between each one.

A lot of redundancy built into it because it's extremely important not to get that cross-contamination.

I think as we are talking, the environmental record is certainly an area of concern that folks have raised. As you have noted, or as my other colleague across the aisle from Pennsylvania noted, hydraulic fracturing was first used 60 years…

I have heard those same concerns. But when you look at the geology in where this drilling is done and you have the layers of Marcellus, and I think you only fracture maybe 18 inches, perhaps, from that horizontal pipeline, so you haven't…

Thank you. I thank my friend for yielding back. You had mentioned the history of drilling. I very proudly represent Titusville, Pennsylvania. It's where one of my district offices is. It's the Drake well. It was 151 years ago that Colonel…

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Essential Air Service assists over 140 communities throughout the United States. EAS, Essential Air Service, works. Let me talk about two airports, real quick. Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was on EAS. It needed it to get their…

The Essential Air Service Program (EAS) assists 140 rural communities across the country that otherwise would not have scheduled air service. As a long-time proponent of the program, I believe Congress has an obligation to provide a level…

I actually have confidence for the oil, the resources that are privately owned.

We are not talking about the Gulf of Mexico, OK, where the most two recent leases were leased.

I take exception with one of the comments made by one of my colleagues earlier about big oil.

The public. Absolutely. The United States taxpayers.

There is nothing more important to the competitiveness of this Nation than a qualified workforce.

My constituents are perplexed with Washington, Mr. Speaker. Economists have warned and the public demands Washington tighten its belt. Despite this year's $1.6 trillion deficit, the President still refuses to change course and reduce…

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Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the gentleman from Virginia's amendment. The Total Maximum Daily Load is a mandatory diet to restrict nutrient and sediment runoff from point and nonpoint sources in the Chesapeake Bay watershed…