Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Louisiana. One of the other things that is in this continuing resolution: $1 billion for increased home heating and cooling cost subsidies. Think about that, for subsidies. At the very same moment, the administration, through its policies, is driving your energy costs--electricity, gasoline, diesel--through the roof. They are making you pay more and then they are taking more of your tax dollars to give it out to people who can't afford to pay for it. And people in this body support this? Somehow with a straight face. You think that this is right? I will give you a statistic: The U.S. imports about 20\1/2\ million barrels a day. A tanker ship takes about 190,000 barrels. That is about 50 ships a day. The trip from Saudi to New York is about 6,500 miles. Looking at the burn rate, we are burning about 1 million gallons one way--1 million gallons one way. And this administration would rather do that, tankers from Saudi Arabia, tankers from Venezuela, my goodness, probably tankers from Iran. But heaven forbid, heaven forbid we open the pipeline, any pipeline. They will close as many as they can because somehow they feel good about that.”