Jeff Duncan

I would like to once hear somebody from this administration admit they made a mistake, and own up to it, and see some disciplinary action, if necessary.

Thank you all for what you do to keep our country safe. You have quite a challenge in your mission and I wish you the best of luck.

In fact, Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace, once said in an interview, "The environmental movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s just as mainstream society was adopting all of the more reasonable items…

This is a very important hearing. It is important to my State of Tennessee, which ranks fifth on the endangered species--on the number of endangered species listed.

One thing I do know, we have sent many millions of good jobs to other countries for the last 40 or more years, and we have driven up costs for everyone on everything.

I applaud the coal industry for turning down the opportunity to receive a bail out from the Federal Government in an attempt to choose winners and losers.

When we have an Administration, the President of whom acknowledged before he was elected he was going to make it economically infeasible to build new coal fired powerplants, and he has done so.

We cannot say we were not warned by the Obama Administration about their intent on fighting the coal industry

It is imperative that the new government in Egypt adhere to the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. This amendment conditions U.S. funding for U.S. military participation in joint military exercises with Egypt. If Egypt abrogates…

I appreciate Mr. Amash's efforts to protect liberty. Let us be clear, there should be no ambiguity when the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens are at risk. The fear that Americans have over indefinite detention is well-founded. We have…

I know my tea party congressman Jeff Duncan will be all about cutting spending in the wrong places.

I think we have failed to communicate that sufficiently to Khamenei.

The free world doesn't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon.

That is exactly what it seems like we are doing with these policies of sanctions, and they seem to be policies of appeasement.

I can't say it any more eloquently or strongly as Mr. Burton did. And I want to echo his words.

I know as a result of the IG audit that has recently been released, that the TSA is working, not just on coming up with a workable single definition of security breaches, but to overhaul its reporting system so that security breaches are…

Public service is a public trust and demands adherence to the highest ethical and personal conduct standards.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (and before the short title) insert the following: Sec. 542. None of the funds made…

Reclaiming my time, I appreciate the gentleman from Massachusetts lending his voice to this debate in favor of it. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.

But I am not saying today, I am just talking about over the last--since the Bush Administration opened up the whole OCS for exploration...

It appears that they are wanting really to handcuff or hold the reins back on American energy independence.

I think the American people do want to have a conversation about what level of the border is secure and what we are doing.

It is a very elitist type of attitude, and it is just disgusting to me.

I have seen this movement over the years of trying to turn some of our national parks into wilderness areas, and it never was intended to be that way.

Do not take our tax dollars and make investment decisions for us. Let us make those decisions ourselves.