78 ordspråk av Joe Barton
Joe Barton
threatened by China's aggressive tactics to lock up energy supplies around the world that are largely dedicated for their own use.
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Updating the communications laws is one of my highest priorities, ... We have made some changes and we're going to make some changes to this draft.
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Updating the communications laws is one of my highest priorities. We have made some changes and we're going to make some changes to this draft.
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We all know who will be the first to complain about natural gas prices this winter. And everybody here knows who will blame high prices on a corporate conspiracy, don't we? But the real conspirators seem to be New England and places like Fall River, Mass.
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We can be responsible ... or we can throw caution to the wind and basically have the U.S. Treasury spend over $10 (billion) to $12 billion if everybody took advantage of the program.
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We cannot stop hurricanes, but we can mitigate some of these adverse impacts on our energy infrastructure and our economy that hurricanes can have. We need to tackle this problem for one simple reason: Our country needs more oil refineries because the people who work for a living need gasoline to get to work.
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We could be drilling in Alaska right now; we could be drilling off the coasts of several other states, ... It would make a difference today if we were not as restrictive as we've been in the last 20 years about where we drill.
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We have between 1 to 2 million barrels of day of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico that's been shut down because of the hurricane, ... I think a very good case can be made today that some retailers have taken advantage of that and have begun to gouge the American people.
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We have witness after witness that's testified to the staff and answered questions today that they thought they were still being covered,
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We need a fresh new approach that will encourage Internet providers to expand and improve broadband networks, spur growth in the technology sector and develop cutting-edge services for consumers,
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We use 21 million barrels of oil a day, and only have the refining capacity for 16 million on a good day, ... And after Katrina and Rita, we haven't had many good days.
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What you are seeing here is an exercise in futility in the worst case, or an exercise in fantasy in the best case, and nothing I have seen this week is going to be voted on in a positive way,
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What you see is not always what you get.
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Why in the heck don't we have a policy in effect today, once we found out we don't?
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You need a leadership team that's ready to go to work next week, not next summer.
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