I do believe there's a legitimate public interest certainly in the permitting and licensing part of these big infrastructure projects.

You know, there's a saying that people like myself that run for public office and have been around awhile kind of live by, and it's called 'no good deed goes unpunished.'

Congress keeps trying to do the right thing in healthcare. We've adopted two policies that we thought were positive, but in terms of cost they don't seem to have helped much.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished Appropriations Committee chairman for yielding me time. I rise in support of this continuing resolution. Obviously, we would rather fund the government for the entire year before the start of the…

I would like to still be in Congress when we actually fund it. And as your current Secretary said famously back in Texas, let's get on down the road.

The bill that passed out of this committee is a long-term permanent solution, bipartisan.

Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from the Garden State of New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), my good friend, just told you all the things that weren't in this bill that he wished were. My distinguished chairman, Mr. Walden, just whispered in my ear that…

Mr. Johnson's bill is simply an acknowledgment of that and says let's use this economic resource that we have to benefit the rest of the world.

This country has been so blessed with natural resources, and then doubly blessed with an economic system based on freedom and free markets.

We repealed the crude oil ban. As I speak today, we are exporting about 2 million barrels of oil per day.

We have an abundance of oil and natural gas in this country.