Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I suspect that Representative Pfluger would be aghast at the claim that this is a legislative earmark. There is no money involved in this. By the way, the air quality has continued to improve. Since 1990, ozone concentration has decreased by 25 percent and emissions of ozone precursors like VOCs and nitrogen oxides have dropped by 47 percent and 65 percent. Let me just tell you, Mr. Chairman: This is how this goes. The EPA sets a level through the Clean Air Act, they attain it, and then the EPA just keeps lowering it and lowering it and lowering it. It is used by the left by people who hate the oil and gas industry, hate civilization, and hate energy to say that you can no longer produce because you can't attain it. That's what they do. To say it is not going to have any effect if we put them in the nonattainment zone, it is not going to have any effect on the producers, on local businesses--if it is not going to have any effect, then why would you do it? It is going to have an effect. They are going to be out of jobs. That is the effect. It is a thinly veiled attempt to curb oil and gas production, and it will destroy local jobs, State revenues, and, more importantly, our national security. Do you think China or Russia, which country that is competing with us in the oil and gas industry, which country do you think is telling their producers that they are not meeting attainment? None of them. Do you think Iran is doing that? We are buying Venezuelan oil.…”