I don't doubt that for a minute. I don't doubt that for second.
If you spend or are obligated to spend over $7 billion you darn sure better help somebody.
We don't need the program. We don't need it. It is not that it is a bad program.
What would be the harm of just rescinding the funding that has not yet in been spent saying game over, save the taxpayers $2.5 billion.
So not everybody is totally happy, but everybody had input.
Texas has chosen to regulate hydraulic fracturing, but to allow it.
The issue before the subcommittee and this panel is really, who is going to set the policy? Who is best able to set the policy?
But the basic policy decisions on these issues appear to me to be best made at the State.
This kind of innovation should be encouraged by local and federal agencies and these agencies should maintain oversight throughout the proce...
The current law gives the States great flexibility, great opportunity.
I think that is the best way to do it.