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

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

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

Americans are scratching their head looking at the data.

I've gotten Facebook posts. I've gotten phone calls in our office encouraging just that, for the President to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserves to help lessen the price at the pump. But let me just tell America that it was during the…

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…

The gentleman from Colorado has been a stalwart and a leader in energy, American energy independence, as a leader of the House Energy Action Team. We call it HEAT, H-E-A-T. Let me just tell America, if you want to find out some of these…

Well, let me thank the gentleman from Colorado for his dedicated service to not only the State of Colorado but to our Nation. We have been coming to the floor talking about the increasing prices of energy across America. Since we came back…

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…

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.

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.

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…

You're exactly right. You know, we had a tragic accident. Nobody is running from the fact that Deepwater Horizon was very tragic in the Gulf of Mexico, and we'll learn from that. The oil companies, energy production companies will learn…

You're exactly right. These are about American jobs going overseas and American tax dollars going overseas, and American-earned income. Because, as I mentioned earlier, you're digging deeper into your wallet, taking out--instead of a $20…

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

We have been having a couple of examples of small towns or cities around the country surrendering their charters because they just could not meet all of the mandates and the expenses of Federal requirements.

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.

A year or two ago, some local bureaucrat in Oregon shut down a 7-year-old girl's lemonade stand because she had not paid the $120 required to get a restaurant license. The bureaucrat's supervisor defended the action because some government…

Are you or are you not going to increase the public lands available for hydraulic fracturing?

We are having stealth tax increases, as Mr. Duncan noted, at the pump.

What I would like to see the Department of the Interior do is say, 'We are going to open up the Bakken oil field in Montana on Federal lands, and allow more energy development.'

Washington loves to talk with flourishes, but generally calls for more bureaucracy as the answer to the problems.

I think America is looking for us here in Congress, and also the Administration, to take the measures to reduce what they pay at the pump.

I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado for his leadership on this issue, not only on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, but also as a leader on the House Energy Action Team, someone that understands that there is no national…

Ultimately the consumers are going to pay, because import/exporters are going to pass those costs on. That is obvious to most folks.