Natural gas is the future of America until we can grow our renewables. I am for wind. I am for solar. I am for biofuels. I am for hydrogen cars. But let me show you how small that is; 86 percent of our energy is fossil fuel; 40 oil, 23…

Do you realize how long it has been since we have actually done a modern seismographic on the OCS? It has not been done in 40 years. We didn't have good seismographics then. We don't really know, but we know there is a lot out there. If we…

the situation we are facing in Iraq right now is serious. The resolution we are debating here tonight, unfortunately, is not. Everyone agrees the situation on the ground is unacceptable. To make it right, we need leadership, resources, and…

I am going to ask again: Why did we start the new energy independence with taxing domestic production but not taxing foreign oil? We are going to lead us in the wrong direction. In your anger against Big Oil, I understand that, but you are…

To those that propose this bill, I want to tell you I support a large fund for renewables. I am for all renewables. But why did you choose to tax American-produced oil and gas and not tax foreign oil and gas? When you tax our production…

I would begin by stating that if the gentleman from Arizona represented the Fifth District in Pennsylvania and the oil region alliance area, he wouldn't be offering this amendment. He represents an area where the average income is 40…

I thank the chairman. We are beginning the most important debate this country has had on energy in a long time, and I am glad to see we have finally moved forward. My good friend, Bill Young, 25 years ago started the moratorium. Back then…

I will take 2 minutes to respond to the opening comments, and then I will share time. Why are we here tonight on an appropriations bill? Because for 25 years we have had authorizing language placed in the initial draft of an appropriations…

I have been having this debate with the Florida delegation and other delegations for some time, and I really appreciate and like all and respect them very much, but I find recently that poll data show me that Floridians are ahead. Over 60…

fear can be overcome with facts. And hopefully down the road here we will get the facts. At this time I yield 2 minutes to my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Sherwood).

let us not confuse medical waste off New Jersey. That was medical waste dumped in the ocean. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Edwards).

on rollcall No. 627. I was inadvertently detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

I guess I want to conclude with the following, that there is no one who has a good argument that we do not need to open a supply of natural gas. There are those who think there are other ways to do it, that LNG is the big answer. I do not…

I close with the following statement: what this Congress does in opening up production of natural gas and bringing the price down, allowing our industries to compete and our seniors to heat their homes will depend on whether we remain a…

as someone who has been in the business, the gentleman can speak to this, but I often describe a gas well as a 6-inch hole drilled in the ground. A steel pipe is placed in that hole, it is cemented at the bottom, it is cemented at the top…

there are a couple of issues maybe we can both talk on. You talked about fertilizer and the cost to farmers. I know those prices have doubled a couple of years in a row, and it has been a huge, huge cost to farmers. Forty-four percent of…

too many of our urban Members do not understand that timber is one of the most renewable resources. I come from the hardwood forest of Pennsylvania, one of the best timber areas in the country; and I also come from an original oil well and…

the point I want to make tonight, and we were debating this issue on the Interior bill, sooner or later we will open up the Midwest and improve the permitting process. We are having a hearing on natural gas on Wednesday. I would like the…

Well, the thing I have found, and I was at dinner tonight with some friends, some scientists, and they were stunned to know about the difference in prices. Everybody thinks that oil and natural gas is a world price, and I have to explain…

As we recap here as the evening grows short, we have been chatting here awhile about natural gas, the clean fuel, the abundant fuel, the one we have lots of. We are not short on natural gas. We are short because we have locked it up. Much…

Well, we really are appreciative of your support. And many other Democrats have come on this issue, and we both have been working both sides of the aisle. If we get a chance, and I am going to share with you that we have been promised that…

Florida has been one of the big opponents, but recently we received a letter that was sent to MMS, the Mineral Management Agencies, urging them to open up the Outer Continental Shelf as soon as possible. The largest business association of…

If we would produce the right amount of natural gas, and the price would moderate and be cheaper than oil, it should, all of our hospitals and our schools have dual capacity. They have to have a redundant heating system. So they will have…

I am not a big fan of LNG. Right now we need everything we can get, and it is okay in a pinch. But we buy it from Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Russia. Do we want to go down the same road we went down with oil, of buying another part of our…

I rise tonight to talk, sadly, about the fact that America once again is completing another month, another halfway through another year, with no energy policy. Is it important that we have an energy policy? Should we have an energy policy…