Pete Olson
The Public Record
I don't like the term patent trolls. These aren't patent trolls. They are patent bullies.
We are still the face of oil, we are the face of coal, the face of natural gas, the face of nuclear power, the face of solar power, the face of wind power.
Unfortunately EPA is using the research as a model for the entire country that CCS is viable. That is putting the cart before the horse. It is not viable.
Always put the horse before the cart. The research you all are doing with CCS is the horse that makes CCS viable in the free market.
There are pockets of viability here in America for CCS. They are in Texas in my district outside of Houston.
These costs will hit families hard and be passed on to average drivers across the country in places like Sugar Land, Pearland, and Katy, Texas.
I am disappointed that so many of the Administration's experts... decided not to educate the public by testifying here this morning.
They were stunned when the former Speaker told our Federal colleagues in Congress that they had to vote for the Affordable Care Act so they could figure out how it works later.
The people I represent in Texas 22 are scared of Obamacare. They feel like they have been disrespected and not given information.
These Texans, who are struggling in this jobless recovery, are being told that they are going to lose a quarter of their salary, 25 percent, because of Obamacare's redefinition of a full-time employee from 40 hours per week to 30 hours.





