If you don't start doing better this committee, this Congress, is going to have come down very, very hard and come up with some legislation that I am sure none of you are going to want to live with at all.

I can tell you the American people think the Federal Government is already far too big, too out of control, and far too secret.

I want to thank the chairman of the committee. I rise today in support of H.R. 1335, the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act. I want to thank my colleagues on the Natural Resources…

These prisoners are American citizens and that should mean something.

I think what I hear and what I read is that wildfire and invasive species are the largest threat.

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

There is opportunity for American businesses. There is an opportunity for America and safety and security, national security, energy security.

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.

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

I am very bullish on exporting LNG.

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

A rising tide floats all boats and I think energy is a segue to rise the quality of living.

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

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

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…

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

I hope that keeps growing.

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

Before I start, I just want to thank the gentleman from Idaho, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies appropriations for all his exemplary work on this and allowing the open process to…

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

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

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

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

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