"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."
"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.'"
"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."
"We have an abundance of oil and natural gas in this country."
"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"We repealed the crude oil ban.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."
"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."
"I don't normally admit to that up here in Washington, since I am a conservative Republican."
"Our Congressman Carter from Georgia was just, rightfully so, complaining about Superfund site in his district that apparently nothing has been done on in 22 years."
"We need to modernize the Superfund process."