I come from Pennsylvania where the first oil well was drilled. I live 5 miles from Drake's well. When we discovered oil in Pennsylvania, it changed the world. The whole industrial world as we know it today came about when oil became one of…

Around the Great Lakes, this Congress voted not to allow slant drilling under the Great Lakes, yet we are buying gas and oil from Canada who is drilling under our Great Lakes and selling us the product. It does not make much sense. But if…

The volume of wind turbines needed to supply a State like Pennsylvania would cover half of New England. The other part is that is not where the wind blows. In Pennsylvania they have found two places, up in the north central part of the…

It is great to join my friends from the West. I come from western Pennsylvania where the energy crisis started. I live 5 miles from Drake's Well, the first oil well ever drilled. The question is, do we need an energy policy? In my view, it…

there is not ample wells being drilled in this country to continue to hook up power plants to be produced by natural gas, from all of the experts I have talked to.

we only can import gas from Mexico and Canada. We can import it from ships, but we only have two ports that can take liquefied natural gas, so we are really limited. We are dependent on what we can drill.

Mr. Rogers is someone that all Pennsylvanians were so proud of. Our hearts are sad today because of his leaving us, but he left behind a heritage that we are all so proud of and will always remember in such a wonderful fashion. I think in…

I believe this is the greatest health care crisis facing my State, Pennsylvania, and this country that we will see. Let me give a little Pennsylvania information. Pennsylvania hospital malpractice premiums in the last 12 months have…

I have dealt with budgets all my life. For 26 years I operated a business and I had a budget. In the family I had a budget. For 19 years I was in State government and we passed a budget every year. For 10 years I was a State appropriator…

I find this amendment interesting. These 36 leases are suspended. They are not active. This language only deals with 1 year, if my information is correct, so it says no money in this budget could be spent. From my understanding of the oil…

I rise to support this conference report and commend the staff, who did a wonderful job and have been great to work with, and for the bipartisanship of resolving so many of these controversial issues. I was pleased that we had a President…

It is a delight and a privilege tonight to stand here and honor one of America's greatest, my friend, and my colleagues' friend, Mr. Joe Paterno. If Members had ever had the chance to sit down, meet, and talk with Joe Paterno, it was…

I rise to make the statement that if milk marketing belongs in the Committee on the Judiciary, then missile defense belongs in the Committee on Agriculture. How many staff people on the Committee on the Judiciary know anything about…

Mr. Chairman, I rise again to repeat one more time that rural America needs our help. I do not really think Congress as a whole or the country as a whole realizes what has not happened in rural America. As we have seen urban and suburban…

This farm bill spends many billions supporting our farmers, but it does too little to assist rural communities where farm families live and raise their families. We are asking for a crumb from the table, Mr. Chairman, $100 million out of a…

today I rise to support this legislation. I rise with all of my colleagues; and I want to commend my colleagues that have brought this all together, because we are here today supporting freedom, preserving freedom, not only here, but…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1828 would establish the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Trail to the National Trails system. The Camino Real, also known as the royal road, is a combination of historic routes totaling 2,600 miles used by the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1937, authored by the gentleman from Washington State (Mr. Larsen) will authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct feasibility studies for three Native American tribes in the State of Washington. The purpose of…

yes, we need more conservation and more efficient use of energy, but we also need an ample supply of all kinds of energy to prevent the price spikes that threaten our jobs and hurt our American families. ANWR is our best reserve. Every…

The pink snake that we were shown is a fraud. It is an absolute fraud. That map, if kept in context, would have been millions of acres of ANWR covered. A pipeline going from the wells that would be drilled to the existing Alaskan pipeline…

Well, the energy prices are important ones to ourselves, along with our traveling costs and our home costs. But we pay them again in our education costs, we pay them again in our health care costs. And in business, we pay them again in…

I want to go into one more issue that we have not talked about here and that is ANWR. And that is the one a lot of people are cautious about talking about, but I am not. With the improvements in technology, it will allow us to develop with…

I think this energy plan is going to diversify us. We are far too dependent. Our largest dependence is 40 percent on oil. I think we need to lower that percentage, because we only have somewhere between 2 and 3 percent of the world's oil…

I think we all should be applauding the President for raising this issue, because it was not a popular political issue, but it is an issue that needs to be addressed. Because if America is going to grow, and our energy use is growing, but…

tonight a group of us here would like to talk about energy. We have heard a lot of discussion about energy. In fact now that gasoline prices have kind of dropped off, home heating prices have declined and things have sort of settled down…