Do you want to drill ANWR? Yes. Do you want to molest Eisenhower's great wildlife reserve? No.
I urge Congress not to accept a bad deal that extends the Bush tax cuts or weakens important parts of our social safety net.
The U.S. Currently lags behind countries like Norway, China, Australia, and Nigeria in capturing taxpayer revenue for oil and gas resources.
While I believe that the supercommittee process is deeply flawed, the Natural Resources Committee has the opportunity to do something positi...
upwards of $300 billion can be collected from going down that route, whereas only $600 million can be collected from the route that the majo...
A $200 million reclamation fee similar to the one that is in Mr. Markey's new legislation, H.R. 3446, would clean up mines and also create a...
Hardrock mining companies should be required to pay a royalty similar to what other extractive industries pay, a 12.5 percent royalty.
Real and meaningful reform of the 1872 Mining Law is needed to protect both taxpayers and the environment.
We need to not only end polluter subsidies, but also end of the Bush tax cuts that are largely responsible for our current budget crunch.
If I may, Mr. Chairman, just to say I felt that we needed this hearing so that the deficit reduction aspect of that hearing that we have alr...
I agree that we should be moving in a direction of reducing unnecessary regulation, particularly on smaller entities.
The Super Committee has been charged with reducing our deficit by at least $1.5 trillion over the last 10 years.
I believe it should remain an unmolested U.S. wilderness sanctuary, public land used for outdoors recreation by world citizens.
I think that is directly pertinent because they both offered an alternative to the proposal which the majority has before the Committee.
Sarbanes-Oxley is a great confidence builder.
the Republican Majority is once again looking to drill in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
The oil and gas industry is swimming in profits while our country is swimming in debt.
Drilling in the Arctic Refuge would do very little to reduce our deficit in the next 10 years.
