More Americans working will mean fewer Americans relying on the government services and a lessened burden on state, local communities, state government.

When I was in business for myself, I realized real quickly that you could never hire somebody or pay someone to do something as cheaply as you could do it yourself.

The ANWR area was set aside in 1980 by Jimmy Carter.

I firmly believe that we have got to change the policies in this country to open up the Federal land and lessening the regulations.

The solution to our energy problem is to reduce our dependence.

What do you think Americans should pay for a gallon of gasoline? That is a simple question.

The thing that concerns me the most, I have noticed over the years that almost all these environmental radicals come from very wealthy or very upper income families.

I guess I am one of the very few Members who has been up to Prudhoe Bay twice.

I firmly believe that energy is a segue to job creation and that is what this hearing is about is about jobs.

Ladies and gentlemen, I rise today in support of H.R. 2587, the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act, that would end the funding for the NLRB's lawsuit against Boeing. {time} 0950 I'm an original cosponsor of this legislation…

I am deeply concerned about the Palestinian Authority's relations with the terrorist organization Hamas.

my ire is not directed at you or the agencies, but rather, I reflect the very passionate frustration of many, many Americans when it comes to immigration issues.

this issue, visa-related immigration, should be easy because we are allowing guests to come into our country.

The sovereignty of this Nation is very, very important to me.

When you see statistics, such as a backlog of 1.6 million people have overstayed their visas in the United States...

If we don't wake up in this country and realize how important private property is to both our freedom and our prosperity, we are going to drastically change what this country has been throughout its history.

It is very obvious to me that we have got a broken visa system for overstays based on these numbers...

These bills, it seems to me, want to keep a minority of wealthy environmental radicals from running roughshod over the rights of the majority of the people who live in those areas.

First off, let me say, I am Scotch-Irish, and I used Ireland earlier in an example only.

I want to thank my colleague from Arizona for taking on this very important issue. What a great evening to talk about America living within its means. We are $14.3 trillion in debt, and we're spending $1.5 trillion more than we are…

I ask the American people to listen closely to these words: ``The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a…

One problem that I see from my colleagues across the aisle and the President is that many of them have never signed the front of a paycheck. They have only signed the back of a paycheck. I was a small-town banker for 8\1/2\ years. I…

I thank the gentleman from Ohio for that. Folks, reforms like a balanced budget amendment, coupled with spending caps and significant spending cuts, are the types of revolutionary reforms that can prevent our children and grandchildren…

I yield to the gentleman from Kansas. He comes from an energy background--supplying parts to the energy production field.

I was out in Washington State with the gentlewoman from Washington several years ago, looking at nuclear power, looking at the Hanford site, talking about reprocessing of nuclear, spent nuclear fuel rods and how reprocessing can deal with…