"$90 billion of tax increases in the President's budget are going to be imposed on the domestic energy industry under this budget."
"My suggestion to you is, that if the President would invite those two individuals, along with House leadership, over to the White House and say, How can we work together to fix this problem, it would ..."
"Will you agree with me, if you increase taxes on domestic production of energy, it will necessarily increase our dependence on imported energy?"
"So you can increase taxes on an industry and it will have no impact on price to consumers, is what you are saying?"
"Is it correct to say that this proposed budget relies, in part, on a $1.6 trillion tax increase over the next 10 years?"
"Is there not a very real danger of gasoline prices skyrocketing for the average consumer, and what would that do to our fragile economic recovery?"
"I worry that, along with the additional tax burden, that an industry which employs 9.2 million people in America right now, by adding $46 billion in additional taxes over the next 10 years by the perm..."
"How does it reduce our dependency on imported energy to raise taxes to the tune of $46 billion on our domestic energy producers?"
"I think in conjunction with the policies of the administration with regard to the Gulf of Mexico, which has been a job-killer in our part of the world, in Texas and Alabama, the Gulf of Mexico, and re..."
"the problem that States that do fund 90 percent of public education in the country are experiencing is that the Federal Government has basically commandeered State budgets."
"I appreciate what the Ranking Member Senator Sessions, his questions relating to money equaling quality education."