Lamar Smith: “We must better recognize what the private sector can do to aid our efforts to protect the world.”

Energy produced from fossil fuel is abundant, affordable and vital to America's security and competitiveness.

My hope is that every member of the committee will sponsor it or at least a majority.

I thank the gentleman from California for his comments and also for his initiatives on the subject of energy in so many ways. Several other bills that we are considering are a result of that initiative. Mr. Speaker, I have no other…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam) for yielding me time, and I thank another gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis) for introducing this legislation. The Equitable Access to Care and Health Act is a bill that I strongly…