mr. womack, thank you for your patience down there. >> thank you. happy birthday, happy anniversary, and my complements to the secretary for his comments at the er summit. and my complements to shundar who is hosting the event. i want to stay on the natural gas subject for just a moment. i'm troubled by the fact that when you look at the budget numbers, a little over $2 billion in renewable energy request, and if i'm reading the numbers correctly, we're looking at just a few million dollars on the subject of natural gas, and as was indicated in that previous round of questioning, that money is dedicated, i think, to, if i heard correctly, to determining whether or not -- you said it's got promise, but to make sure that we're not doing something environmentally. so can you help me? i know those numbers -- that's a wide range, and the numbers from the information agency suggest that natural gas use by 2035 will be equal to all the rene renewables put together, so those numbers just don't match to me. help me out with that. >> sure. let's look at all o

mr. womack: i'd be happy to. mr. griffin: i agree with what the gentleman is saying, and correct me if i'm wrong, what you're saying is not regulation, the issue is excessive regulation. the issue is overregulation. i've got a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old. i love them dearly and hate to get on that plane when i have to come up here from arkansas and have to leave them back at the house. and i want them to have clean air and clean water. so i don't know anyone, the folks here tonight included, who are against all regulation. regulation, used properly, protects us, kids, etc. this is not about whether to regulate or not. this is about excessive regulation. overregulation. regulation -- regulations -- regulatory process that does not consider cost benefit -- that does not consider impact on jobs. that does not employ common sense, washington regulators that don't speak with folks impacted on the ground. that don't -- well-intentioned though they may be, that don't look at the impact and potential impact of their overregu

mr. womack. >> thank you. happy anniversary. i thought your comments were an lightning and well attended event and my compliments to j d jundar who is hosting the event. hy am troubled by the fact that when you look at the budget numbers are little over $2 billion in renewable energy request and if i am reading the numbers correctly we are looking at a few million dollars on the subject of natural gas was indicated in the previous round of questioning and that money is dedicated if i heard correctly to determining whether or not it has promised but to make sure we are not doing something environmentally -- can you help me? those numbers -- ny range, to suggest that natural gas use by 2035 will be equal to all the renewables put together. those numbers don't seem to match up. help me out with that. >> let's bring in all energy including transportation energy. how much it depends on oil created domestically or produced domestically or produced and imported, my guess would be a hundred billion dollars a year. our energy budget is n

mr. womack, kindly take the chair? the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h.r. 1734 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to decrease the deficit by realigning, consolidating, selling, disposing and improving the efficiency of federal buildings and other civilian real property and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose on monday, february 6, 2012, amendment number 6 printed in house report offered by the gentleman from missouri, mr. carnahan, had been disposed of. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 3 printed in house report 112-385 by the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 3 printed in house report 112-385 offered by mr. connolly of virginia. the chair: a recor

mr. womack of arkansas. the speaker: pursuant to clause 4 of rule 1, the following enrolled bills were signed by the speaker on friday, january 27, 2012. the clerk: h.r. 3800, to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the airport and airway trust fund, to amend title 49, united states code, to extend the airport program and for other purposes. h.r. 3801, to amend the tariff act of 1930 to clarify the definition of aircraft and the offenses penalized under the aviation smuggling provisions under that act and for other purposes. the speaker: the chair will entertain you have to 15 requests from each side of the aisle for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? will kopelman mr. speaker, i ask -- mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker: without objection, so ordered. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, baker spring of the prestigious he