Jeff Duncan

I am deeply concerned with the regulatory overreach that we have seen. I believe it cripples the economy.

I have seen the refining capacity in St. Bernard Parish, and my heart still goes out to the folks in Louisiana for the Katrina Hurricane.

I keep going back to what the folks in South Carolina think we should do, and that is concrete still and barbed wire, and maybe think of a simple approach.

Just a follow up, General. Out of the 10,000 new Border Patrol agents and 20,770 plus or minus agents, how many of those are involved in the UAV program?

I believe that over the years, the Park Service has hired far too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

It has become clear to me over the many years that I have served in this position, that you can never satisfy government's appetite for money or land.

I think our goal is the same in securing the border, determining what comes in here.

I stated to him the acceptable level of operational control to the American people means that we control who enters this country.

American energy independence is a national security issue.

The events in the Middle East magnify the need for American energy independence.

I think most of us on this side feel you should do more to take care of the property you have instead of buying additional properties.

We are very rapidly doing away with private property in this country, making it much more expensive and harder for young families to buy homes.

I second everything that you have said in your opening statement, especially about land purchases.

So it concerns me that you are asking for $997 million to be taken from the Sport Fish Restoration Account, when we are closing sport fishing along the coast of South Carolina.

American energy independence and security is something that I feel like we have to strive for.

Steve Southerland was right: We are broke in this country, and we have to make some hard decisions about what we spend money on.

I think too many people within the EPA don't realize that some little minor change in regulations can cost this Nation billions.

He said he had never seen so many unnecessary or excessive regulations coming down on these utility boards as he had just in the last few months.

In all that time, I have never heard as many complaints or concerns about the EPA as I have just within the last few weeks or months.

I do not know of anyone who opposes clean air and safe water, or who wants our children's health put at risk due to a degraded environment.

I hope we don't get any worse examples.

I have sat on this committee for 22 years now, and no matter what it is... we all want to speed these things up.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Only in Washington can we have the debate over how desperately New York and the U.N. needs $100 million, while simultaneously arguing that not giving that money to the U.N. would not result in any savings for the U.S. taxpayer. If money is…

So during the course of getting to this office, we were questioned a lot about certain things that the United States were doing with regard to patriotic Americans.