Ted Poe actually said...

"The concept, political economics if I can use that phrase, of expanding our natural gas resources to other countries, including Europe, does that help us politically, like the Ukrainians and our relat..."

"Politically, for the United States, wouldn't it help the relationship to have India look to the United States instead of look to China, or Pakistan, or somewhere else, even Russia for natural gas?"

"I hope the Department of Energy knows that that is a possibility as well."

"If the DOE would give the green light, the company would immediately create 3,000 new construction jobs."