Ted Poe actually said...

"Lifting the ban is what would actually protect domestic consumers."

"I believe the President should also stop blocking that long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline which would create, I think all of us agree, at least 20,000 direct jobs."

"U.S. crude exports could also lower the price at the pump."

"If we are taking down the walls that we have that are right now up along our coast to exports whether it is LNG, crude oil, we are sending a pretty strong signal to those around the world that we are ..."