Mr. Speaker, Popeye the sailor has advocated for 80 years that spinach gives energy. Now the EPA wants to use this food as green energy. But does that idea make any sense? After the administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars of…

Thank you, Mr. Burton, for your comments. I appreciate the gentleman from Indiana. Several comments about what you said are important. The administration, the government, says drilling is up in the United States. That is true. But drilling…

Madam Speaker, in the quiet town of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, a 91-year-old memorial honoring hometown soldiers stands tall outside a local fire station. A stone bottom statue with a cross on top immortalizes the fallen heroes who…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Anytime the government gets involved in data sharing and data storage, there is going to be the possibility for abuse. I hear from my constituents in Texas and U.S. companies that they continue to lose…

If the gentleman will yield, we're not only sending money down there to develop their oil industry, when they develop it, we're going to buy their oil back. So we're paying them twice.

Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Now, I don't know and I don't really suspect that drilling would be the only answer for raising or lowering the gasoline prices, but it's one factor because of supply and demand. It's not the…

I thank the gentleman for his participation. Madam Speaker, it seems to me that the United States can make some decisions and solve some of our own problems. We can start with finding people in the EPA that do not have their own personal…

If the gentleman will yield, as you mentioned about ANWR in Alaska, years ago we came up with this idea of a pipeline from Alaska bringing crude oil into the United States, and the same people that opposed that pipeline still exist today…

The drilling is taking place on State-owned property or private property, but other lands other than Federal lands. If it wasn't for that, drilling would be down in the United States. If we go back to the Gulf of Mexico, the same situation…

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Tonight, I and other Members of the House are going to talk about energy issues in the United States. Probably a timely thing to start with are the recent comments by one of the individuals who works for the…

I think the United States should reward our international friends, and not reward our enemies.