 I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region. |
| Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious. |
| As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country. |
| Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this. |
| I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. |
| There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that. |
| Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. |
| Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. |
| We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence. |
| Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead. |
| There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers. |
| I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it. |
