Charles W. Stenholm: “I have done better than that. I have had them drill on my own property. They drilled 11 dry holes which I have had…”

“I have done better than that. I have had them drill on my own property. They drilled 11 dry holes which I have had discussions with them as to why they could not do a better job of finding oil under my property than just drilling dry holes. But from the standpoint of the basic in the gentleman's exchange with the gentleman from California (Mr. Filner), we used to have a very bad situation in Texas, and I can show my colleagues land in my community that was literally destroyed by the oil and gas industry because of their inability and unwillingness to protect it. That was 50 years ago. Today, when the last well that was drilled on my property, again a dry hole, one cannot tell they were there today. They do an excellent job because that is the rules and regulations that Texas imposes upon the oil and gas industry, and I believe that is basically true all over the United States today. The question before us, though, it is not just oil and gas producers that are opposed to these proposed storm water regulations being imposed unilaterally across the board on every possible site.”