Pete Olson

America is an energy superpower.

We are undercutting OPEC and Russia, helping our allies, and giving American workers an opportunity to compete.

In Texas, we say you're a straight shooter. That's a very high compliment.

This should be a great opportunity for this committee. We can bring a new and much-needed focus to today's power markets.

This could be a great opportunity for this committee. We can bring a new-and much-needed focus to today's power markets.

Where in the Constitution or statute has Congress authorized EPA to go from end of pipe controls to generation shifting?

We all want clean air within these communities, our families, our kids, and that is why the Clean Air Act is hugely important, but it is not perfect.

The Clean Air Act is about cooperation. It is a balance between States and the Federal Government.

The people back home are so tired of having to go to courts to get the rules enforced the way they are written.

We are going from a 'not in my backyard,' to a 'not in anybody's backyard.'

V2V and V2I promises to do the same thing with cars. And no one in the world wants V2V and V2I to work more than I do, because my life changed forever because of a car crash.

A mom-and-pop store in Pennsylvania wrote EPA: 'Parents tell our children, 'Eat your peas, then you can have dessert.' EPA says, 'Eat your peas, then you can have more peas.'

Healthy air and healthy water are priority one.

Impossible rules help no one and they can hurt.

I have a bipartisan bill with Representative Doyle and Green to fix this in the energy package we are working on.

My bill addresses a problem many communities in America got a taste of this past summer: record numbers of kids coming across our southern border without their parents.

The Ebola case in Dallas spooked them. It spooked them badly.

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.

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.

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.

There are pockets of viability here in America for CCS. They are in Texas in my district outside of Houston.

I am disappointed that so many of the Administration's experts... decided not to educate the public by testifying here this morning.

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.

The people I represent in Texas 22 are scared of Obamacare. They feel like they have been disrespected and not given information.