Hon. George W. Gekas: “The American people know to the fullest extent possible that the Congress exempts itself, excuses itself, recuses…”

We are not adverse to developing a plan of tax incentives to give our fellow Americans, the entrepreneurs, the incentive to go ahead and drill where they might fail; but we ought to give them that incentive to do so and to otherwise bring…

Mr. Chairman, the point is that the substitute wrecks bankruptcy reform. What I am trying to get across, and what I hope is the message to all the Members is that any amendments practically that would harm the basic reforms that we put…

I have not been able to predict exactly what would happen. It seems to me that we ought to start a course on energy independence and go to it without respect to what OPEC does. All I am saying is we will have an extra dividend to lower…

We are not certain of that. Let me assure the gentleman that indeed this deletion of the judges does not in any way sway us away from our commitment to have these judges appointed and to assume their positions as bankruptcy judges. This…