| Utilizing U.S. Resources |
March 28, 2012 |
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Tom Coburn, R-OK
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"The other thing that we don’t think about is the fact that these energy companies have made a marked difference in the cost of everyday goods for every American in this country. Go into the kitchen and look at all the products in the kitchen. Go into the bathroom and look at all the products in the bathroom. The fact is, natural gas at $2.13—1 million Btus today—has enabled us to now become competitive worldwide in fertilizer, polyethylene, all of the raw materials for packaging for synthetic goods from clothing to vinyls to housing materials."
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| Statements On Introduced Bills And Joint Resolutions |
March 6, 2012 |
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Charles Grassley, R-IA
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"Unfortunately, recent trends indicate youth drug use nationally is on the rise and new synthetic drugs like K2/Spice and bath salts are gaining in popularity. In fact, the latest Monitoring the Future Survey indicates that one in nine high school seniors used synthetic drugs like K2/Spice in the past year. This is the first year this survey tested students on synthetic drug use. The high number of users in such a short time span illustrates how rapidly drug use can spread among certain populations and communities. It is discouraging to see these surveys and to read about more tragedies on a daily basis. These negative trends will continue if they are not aggressively addressed."
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| African American Inventors |
February 28, 2012 |
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Melvin Watt, D-NC
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"Percy Lavon Julian (1899 1975) developed synthetic cortisone, which provided cheaper relief from rheumatoid arthritis. In 1954 he founded Julian Laboratories to research steroids and in 1961 he sold his company to Smith, Kline and French."
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| Synthetic Drug Use |
February 15, 2012 |
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Amy Klobuchar, D-MN
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"Today I want to take a few minutes to add to the comments of Senator Grassley about the growing threat to people of all ages, but particularly to our young people, of the dangerous synthetic drugs that are becoming, sadly, more and more common in our communities."
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| Keystone Xl Pipeline |
January 17, 2012 |
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John Shimkus, R-IL
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"This is the oil sands. It’s just oil that coats sand. And they boil it off, they recover the froth, they turn it into a liquid product called bitumen. And then it eventually gets turned into synthetic crude, and that’s what we’re talking about."
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