Thomas E. Petri: “We believe we're closer than ever to being able to institute repayment pathways that ensure student loans are repaid on…”

Our infrastructure, our transportation system has been the foundation of our economic greatness in this country, and we need to step up and demand that we find a way to continue to finance it.

We have all these options for drilling on Federal property, ways that we can use our domestic resources to keep from sending money overseas and bring our fuel costs down.

In closing, I would like to reiterate that this bill is about good government, about creating a regulatory environment that improves safety at a fraction of the cost, and ultimately about helping to revitalize an American industry. I…

During rollcall 418 on final passage of H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013, I incorrectly recorded my vote as ``no.'' I intended to vote ``yes.'' Personal Explanation