"there's a moral case, and I think a very compelling moral case, to be made for the fossil fuel industry."
"this is also a national security issue."
"eliminating the tax provisions supporting fossil fuels, it is going to save about, if we did that, would be $3.2 billion."
"How can you explain all the exportations? Wasn't the purpose all along to export the oil and gas to higher price markets overseas?"
"the United States is now a global leader since 2000 in reducing CO2 emissions and in energy production."
"the more that the central government...meddles with the private sector...the worse off the private sector is"
"The free market isn't perfect, but it's a whole world better than a regulated central planning."
"the alleged wage gap is grossly overstated and exaggerated for political benefit."
"Will it be fair, with such limited numbers of people available to play those sports, if women, biological women, are having to compete on the same field of play with biological males?"
"But we don't seem to have a lot of concern, and, in fact, H.R. 51 was the first bill that we've heard for any statehood for any of our territories, and yet there are 3 million residents of Puerto Rico..."
"I find it disheartening and, quite frankly, insulting that one of my colleagues... said that there was great momentum and interest in D.C. Statehood and then it changed and then it waned."