Ralph Hall: “There is a lot of work to be done to put our country back on the right track, and the President's budget request is not…”

I want to thank you for holding this hearing on what is probably one of the most important words in the dictionary, especially to youngsters 18 years old, high school, college graduates, and that word is energy.

We need to be aware of it and abreast of it and never forget it and looking at it every day, but we need to be reasonable about what we have to spend with no help from people that ought to be assisting us.

Some of those concerns have been raised by the Attorney General of Texas. He has filed some 30 suits, I think, against this Administration, who seems like can't tell the truth, can't even call a terrorist a terrorist.

Ayn Rand said, 'When you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing... you may know that your society is doomed.'