"This is an important issue for me obviously."
"Increasing crude exports means increasing impacts on climate change, public health and safety, property owners, and our water supplies."
"Exports may help oil companies, but will they really benefit consumers?"
"One point that I want to make is America is a trading county. We don't need to or should we get to zero imports before we export."
"I think if you listen to the witnesses, especially my good friend, Ambassador Gandalovic from the Czech Republic, you will see the absolute positivism of repealing this ban."
"Of course, those of us that are red, in that sense, you know, if they would listen to us more, we would have less of those people."
"Let us look at a program, Ms.--that Ms. Castor and I are very supportive of, the Ace Kids Act."
"If we let the producers have the option of putting that oil on the world market, the consumer in the United States could potentially benefit from the world price going down."
"Would you agree that if we were to let our domestic oil potentially be exported, that it would, at a minimum, keep prices from going up on world markets?"
"I would say Moniz is money. So not superstar but money."
"Put simply: this is unacceptable. Medicaid is supposed to provide our most vulnerable with vital medical services, but continued waste and fraud undermines this important goal."