Jeff Duncan

This hearing isn't about Islam, but rather it is about Islamists using institutions of Islam to propagate Islamism.

If we were to open up these areas, America is blessed with the abundance of oil and natural gas resources.

You propose in your budget an increase of onshore royalties from 12.5 percent to 18.75 percent, an increase on the cost that the consumer will pay.

I cannot think of a single example where an increase in a tax or a fee ever reduces the price for the consumer.

Since the Administration has been in office, the last three years have seen the fewest acres leased for oil and gas development in the last 30 years.

Americans, it's been 1,044 days since the United States Senate has passed a budget for America. Back in 2009, the average American family spent $173.80 a month on gasoline. In 2011, that number had risen to $368.09 a month on gasoline…

I think we have grown Government so much that we are actually--it seems to me we are working counter to that original 9/11 Commission report that charged us and created this agency.

I have been disappointed with the lack of effort by this Administration to prevent a state sponsor of terrorism like Cuba to drill approximately 60 to 65 miles off of Florida's coast.

I think it is important that, rather than just reacting to a disaster, we should be working proactively to develop a plan.

So, my first question is, why does this Administration continue to push through these enormously impactful regulations--and make no mistake that TMDL is a regulation--without performing basic economic and social analysis of the impacts?

The President himself said, under his cap and trade plan, that electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, Ranking Member Berman, Madam Chair, Chairman Royce, the chair of the subcommittee, heard the bill.

Amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3783 offered by the Honorable Jeff Duncan.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3783 offered by the Honorable Jeff Duncan, a Representative in Congress from the State of South Carolina.

You shouldn't have to keep coming back to Congress because the law is the law of the land right now.

Americans are scratching their head looking at the data.

The disconnect of agencies talking to one another wasn't there.

I want to commend the State Department, Mr. Donahue, for your process of prescreening applicants for visas.

Before do you that, can I just remind you that Admiral Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along that same line, said, there can be no national security without energy security. There can be no national security without energy…

Energy production might be up in this country, but it has nothing to do with the policies of this administration. It goes back to the previous administration that said, you know what, we're going to open up Bakken because the geological…

Gentleman from Colorado, that's a great example. I've never heard him talk about that. The administration talks about the exact opposite. They want us to pay for what Europeans pay for oil and natural gas. They want to see us move toward a…

One of the most subversive threats facing the U.S. and our neighbors comes from Iran's hostile activity and strategy influence in our hemisphere.

This bill offers us an opportunity to work together with our allies and partners in the Western Hemisphere to identify the mutual threats to our interests and act together to protect those interests.

The amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by Mr. Duncan, which incorporates changes from both sides of the aisle

I have heard and read that while the problems of the bigger cities are getting the most publicity and the most attention, that there are a lot of even more problems in some of these small towns and rural areas.