Mike Conaway

The bottom line is we need policies which encourage investment in environmentally sound, cost-effective practices without stifling innovation and setting our economy further back.

Unfortunately, cap-and-trade legislation will only further cripple our economy.

We need reliable and affordable energy supplies from all sources: from renewable fuels, from new technologies, from wind and solar, but also from coal, nuclear, natural gas, and oil production domestically here in the United States.

I am adamantly opposed to cutting funding to this program simply because it represents a bank to fund other programs.

Such proposals are simply irresponsible and an attempt to use crop insurance as a piggy bank.

It is our way or the highway, and the rest of the world can do whatever it wants.

My concern, as an independent, neutral marketplace for credit derivatives, is that if you take it away, you are going to really significantly damage the very fragile credit market we have now.

At the risk of beating a dead horse, section 16 does give me some pause if for no other reason than a ban on any other kind of otherwise legal activity is always troublesome.

My view--and I would like your comments--if we had the normal reserve and capital requirements that insurance companies have to abide by when they sell an insurance product--and the CDS is an insurance product--and you had those capital…

I applaud him for calling for no earmarks and for transparency and accountability. That's exactly what we want to do. I'm particularly encouraged that Vice President Biden has committed to oversee the spending of every single dollar…

What you're really talking about is an attack on the American lifestyle. We have built a Nation predicated on cheap gasoline because it has always had cheap gasoline, and we've built suburbs. We've expanded into rural areas. We've built a…

On policies we debate in this Chamber, we always have choices. And it seems as though recently with respect to spending, the choice is to spend more. With respect to taxes, the choice is to tax more. With energy, the choice is to raise…

Some of those amendments were cosponsored in regular legislation by Democrats. Yet when it came to the Budget Committee they voted against them. In their own bills on the floor over here, they voted against them, just partisan, partisan…

Thank you. That is exactly right. It is the Savings in Appropriations bill. What it says is the Appropriations Committee, in all of the hard and worthy work they do, they get one bite at the apple of setting priorities. We give them the…

Their intentions are good. They don't intend to raise the lowest tax rate from 10 percent to 15 percent, or a 50 percent increase in tax rates. They don't intend to do that. But by these budget proposals they brought in in the last 2…

Ambassador Crocker was asked, what does success look like in Iraq? We ought to know both sides of the equation, both sides of the coin of success and failure. He described ``success'' in Iraq as an Iraq that is developed into a united…

It just occurred to me. I am a CPA in a different life, and in order to keep my license current I have to have 40 hours a year of continuing education, and I know you as a lawyer also have to have continuing education. Maybe this could be…

But this was in the 110th Congress, and it is styled The AMERICA Act, A Modest Effort to Read and Instill the Constitution Again.

Before we get away from the coal comments, I want to make sure that, I know my colleagues agree with this, as we look at coal usage, it ought to be clean-burning coal. None of us argue in support of continued CO2 emissions from coal-fired…

And, in effect, that is a tax on families in this country. Now, we all want to get to a, I would refer to it as an energy security, not only American energy security, but we ought to be talking about global energy security in this context…

Will the gentleman help us understand, as we talk about these supplies, a variety of energy resources, we assume, for the lack of this conversation, that it's all equal and that it all costs the same amount of money to produce, and that's…

And if we demand or mandate 15 percent total electricity produced from renewables, what does that do to the cost of that electricity to the consumer?

We are all anticipating the report David Petraeus will bring us in mid-September. But between now and then, there is hard work, dangerous work, and important work that has to be done. For Members on the other side of the aisle to begin to…

Yes. Let me say this: Even if the occasional turbine helped a bird commit suicide, yes, I would encourage wind turbines.

Well, that folds into this exact policy, because things of uncertain public policies contribute to a decrease in private investment solutions.