If you spend or are obligated to spend over $7 billion you darn sure better help somebody.

This kind of innovation should be encouraged by local and federal agencies and these agencies should maintain oversight throughout the process...

The States are doing most of the work in actual environmental protection on a day-to-day basis.

As I read the Constitution, it starts with three words, 'We, the people,' which means the power comes from God to the people.

Is it the Federal Government, top-down, or is it the people in the States, bottom-up?

Not everybody is totally happy, but everybody had input.

I think the Oil and Gas Commission is perfectly capable of setting policy.

The current law gives the States great flexibility, great opportunity.

But the basic policy decisions on these issues appear to me to be best made at the State.

So not everybody is totally happy, but everybody had input.

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?