Jeff Duncan

Our refineries are set up to handle it without a lot of significant investment on behalf of U.S. companies.

Reducing our dependence on energy from unstable parts of the world and from regimes hostile to the U.S. interests has long been a crucial element in protecting our broader national security interests.

This is our neighborhood. It is not our back yard.

I am very bullish on exporting LNG.

I think electricity does that for so many people around the world.

Approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline would not only inject over $7 billion in private investment into our economy.

The Keystone Pipeline decision remains mired in White House delaying tactics and State Department bureaucracy.

It seems ridiculous to me that we're so interconnected with each other that, when a crew cuts a tree limb in Cleveland, Ohio, and it cuts off the power to the entire Northeast and part of Canada for several hours, I mean, it seems like, to…

I hope that keeps growing.

It also seems to me that we need to get more people interested in this.

This is just one of thousands of things that we deal with, so none of us are the experts that you all are.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. For an additional amount for ``Corps of…

I hope we greatly decrease the funding of the EPA and greatly decrease the number of employees...

It seems to me the people who are running the EPA--both of you gentlemen are very high level EPA employees--people who are running the EPA should be ashamed. You should be embarrassed.

I have to tell you, Mr. Meiburg and Mr. Reeder, what I have heard over these last few months about the EPA is absolutely the worse I have heard of any department or agency in the entire Federal Government.

I appreciate his calling this hearing and staying on top of these matters.

I want to thank the gentleman for bringing up the Iranian threat in the Western Hemisphere, something that I have been following.

I don't think we can provide enough money to pay those officers.

Look into your crystal ball and tell--no.

It is time to pass it again and I thank the gentleman for his efforts on this.

I think the layered approach of Guatemala on their side, Mexico on their side to stop it before it ever gets to that Texas-U.S. borders is very vital.

I want to applaud the Mexicans for recognizing that and stepping it up.

I appreciate them working together in a bilateral agreement to facilitate trade and all that.

Mr. President, there has got to be accountability, and he agreed. He said, absolutely there has to be accountability.

I call upon the region's governments to work with the United States and do their parts to find the solution to this growing humanitarian crisis.