[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 25, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H162]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                       STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH

  (Mr. LANKFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Speaker, today is day 1,001 since the Senate has 
passed a budget. In addition to that, Mr. Speaker, the President has 
notified this body that his budget will also be late this year. Now, 
that may be a couple days, it may be a week--we don't know exactly how 
late that's going to be at this point. And last night, at the State of 
the Union Address, he spent exactly 3 percent of the speech talking 
about debt and deficits. We have $15.3 trillion worth of debt right now 
in our Nation. It is a major issue for us. It slows down our economy.
  I was very pleased to hear him talk about an all-of-the-above energy 
strategy though, and I'm very focused on that exact same thing. But I 
did have a couple things that need to be cleared up. He mentioned 
basically that hydraulic fracking and the process of recovering shale 
gas was a Federal project and a Federal invention. Well, I'd like to 
inform everyone that since 1949, we have done that in Oklahoma. And the 
chemicals that he mentioned, we need to get out there and stop 
concealing them. If you go to fracfocus.org, Mr. Speaker, you will 
already find all those hydraulic chemicals out there. So we need to 
clear those things up.

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