Mike Conaway

This is too steep a price to pay for a plan that cannot even begin to guarantee that it will be able to meet its objectives.

I fear that agriculture's unique opportunities to combat climate change are being overlooked.

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 have a book here that has a list of almost 32,000 American scientists who disagree vehemently with that particular position.

This situation puts rural Hoosier rate payers at a massive disadvantage while delivering windfalls to those who don't need them.

Without an explicit exemption from an emissions cap for agriculture, it is not in my opinion a matter of IF production agriculture will be regulated but WHEN.

Anything less is an abdication of our responsibility as elected officials and the constituents that we care so much about.

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

EPA is not farmer friendly or even farmer neutral. It has consistently made determinations that harm producers.

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

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.

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…

My first reaction to reading this bill was how could 236 Members of Congress on the Democratic side, their legions of staff, and their hired guns, know so little about a fundamental industry like we've got that they would think that these…

The traditional offshore lease needs to be at least 10 years because from start to finish--we have got some graphs here that we can show you the logical, businesslike progression that companies have to walk down. What is not mentioned so…

I appreciate and thank the ranking member for recognizing me. It's interesting that, if you look at this bill, which I intend to vote for, what it basically does is it points a finger in the face of the commodities future trading…

Well, I thank my classmate from Georgia for hosting this hour tonight. We spend an awful lot of time at these microphones, both sides, basically talking past each other. Usually, the rhetoric is heated, and we don't listen. My experience…

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…

But you cannot talk about the regulation of the airline industry without talking about jet fuel prices. As has already been stated in a variety of ways, airlines are experiencing dramatic increases in their cost of fuel. They're trying to…

I hope that it helps some of our colleagues learn a little bit more about the oil business. One of the things that is true in almost every area is that before you begin to regulate something, before you begin to try to control something…

Mr. Speaker, the serious business of providing energy for America, whether that energy is electricity to light the lights in this hall or to run manufacturing facilities or gasoline, whether it is diesel or jet fuel to move people and…