He did it because he had a desire to do that, and he brought the best people together in a capitalist, free market environment to think and come up with a solution.

It is not the Government's role to incentivize or penalize companies and individuals that aren't investing in this, it is up to the marketplace.

Think about how the United States can be a leader in improving the quality of lives of so many people around the globe.

But yet we want to vilify and demonize fossil fuels that make our lives so much better.

People care about things that are tangible to them: how much it takes to fill up their gas tank.

If the Green New Deal policies are adopted, the price of utilities will inevitably go up.

First off, let me thank the gentlewoman for having this Special Order on a very, very important issue. South Carolina is as far away from the Texas border, the southern border, as almost any State. We do have an international border with…

Protecting the grid against cyber and EMP attacks should be a priority.

I want to applaud you on that.

This capability is needed to facilitate the rapid introduction of new technologies into our Nation's electrical infrastructure.

Just like hurricanes aren't limited to Florida or the Gulf of Mexico, wildfires are not limited to the west.

I believe that was the beginning of the change of mitigation practices and how forests were managed all throughout the west.

over the past century a cultural fire exclusion unfortunately removed the natural role of fire from the public consciousness

If someone in a 202 area code that's 28 years old sets up a Twitter account with very limited information but has an email address and a 202 area code----

Point's well-made and the gentleman's time has expired.

I would think that someone in your position would be celebrating that and him rather than trying to undermine him.

I think what we are doing at DriveOhio is we have a group workforce development.

One hundred percent of the suggested followers were biased.

Well, it is something to consider. I mean, right now, people are saying that there is a shortage of truck drivers, and yet, if this automation moves as fast as some people predict, it may be sooner than 20 years.

One thing I am interested in, and anybody can comment who wants to, but just yesterday, Fox Business had an article that said driverless trucks could eliminate nearly 300,000 industry jobs over the next quarter decade, including more than…

I remember the oil shortage in the 1970s and since then we really haven't had a true oil shortage.

There is no doubt that demand for oil is much greater now than when the SPR was originally developed.

Since I've been in Congress, we have used the SPR as an opportunity to offset spending with cut-go or whatever, and that's wrong.

I want to thank Chairman Young, the dean of the House, for his efforts on this. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 200, the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act. As chairman of the…

I've felt for a long time that it's been a very sad thing that we have sent so many young Americans to fight what I thought were very unnecessary wars.