Pete Olson

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.

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.

The RFS was designed for a U.S. energy future that no longer exists, that of a peak oil and increasing gas demand.

I have a duty to 700,000 people to get these answers.

Sir, it is my job, my sacred duty to get answers to those questions for these 700,000 people, Texans who live in Texas 22.

I didn't think it was possible, sir, but the Administration's actions created more uncertainty back home in Texas 22 over Obamacare's impacts on their families and businesses.

My blood boils when I hear that India is revoking and denying patents and granting compulsory licenses for cancer treatments.

Robust trade with India that complies with international standards is more important than ethnic diversity in my district.

Congratulations on your nomination by the President to be the 13th Secretary of Energy and by being confirmed by the Senate with an impressive 97-to-nothing vote.

God bless the people of Moore, Oklahoma, and everybody impacted by those terrible tornados.

We are having an energy renaissance right here in America because of new technology: hydraulic fracturing and directional so-called horizontal drilling.

Put simply, my job is to find the truth. The truth is that 55 Americans died because their spinal injection was contaminated.

Texas is the number one producer of oil and gas, but we are the number one producer of wind in America.

America is on course to resume its role as the world's energy powerhouse in the 21st century.

As we move forward as a Nation, we need to better understand how our newly realized energy resources can advance our foreign-policy goals.

It sounds like an attack on coal, doesn't it?

Clean air and economic growth are not mutually exclusive.

$500 million of their taxpayer money was so callously wasted on loan guarantees that the administration and the people of Texas 22 knew were as risky as betting our future space exploration on three magic beans.

if we shut down power plants like the CSAPR rule would have done, you know, people will die.

some folks back home don't understand how EPA can push such an anti-fossil fuel, anti-job, American job agenda.

Congress never intended the Clean Air Act to be used to regulate greenhouse gases.

I represent Texas 22. Over 920,000 people depend on me up here in Congress to speak with their voices and get answers to their problems back home in Texas.

His agenda wasn't about any sort of clean water, clean air. It was an agenda about getting rid of American production of energy, specifically, fossil fuels--oil, gas, coal.

I am sure you agree on this, but in the event of a true emergency, DOE has the authority to compel power plants to operate to avoid a blackout under Section 202(c), even if that means violating an environmental permit issued by EPA.

Now is not the time for unjustified new regulations that will raise the price of fuel even further.