I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, strike lines 15 and 16, and insert the following: ``(B) Limitation.--A general permit issued under…

I thank Chairman Graves and Chairman Rouzer for working on this legislation. Mr. Chair, the reality is that America has been wrapped in a bureaucratic morass. We have been wrapped in red tape. It is impossible to do things like build…

I thank my friend from South Carolina for yielding and for his leadership on energy. We sure are going to miss your voice. We have a few more months left before you leave Congress, but you have been a great advocate for American energy and…

It is a percentage, yet this bill tries to come in and create a level playing field, create certainty, and create economic conditions that make sense. My friends are sitting here saying: Oh, Big Oil is profiting. They are profiting because…

The probability of release is just as assured as for those flying into airports.

Secretary Mayorkas has taken his ill-conceived interpretation of parole and has perverted it to accelerate the mass entry of aliens.

They continue to make the U.S. Government the logistics arm of the international drug cartels.

This is an abuse of parole by design.

A sovereign border in the United States, and for any country, is critical under laws to ensure--it is the responsibility of the country to ensure--

Thus we have shifted. So it's where a sovereign nation exercises its authority upon sovereign soil, would you say, like our embassies--our embassies across the world are considered our sovereign soil, are they not?

These are the words of the Biden administration.

There are big differences between the Gulf Coast and the West Coast. The habitat for our fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico is the energy infrastructure.

What our bill does is our bill simply tries to create a clear process, provide regulatory certainty on how we can take this energy infrastructure that may be moving toward decommissioning, the P&A work and ultimately decommissioning, and…

I want to be clear, I agree with you. There is nothing we want to do that we want to increase the threat to the health and the ecological productivity of the Gulf of Mexico.

OK, I certainly would appreciate that, if we could continue the dialogue.

I have sat in this Chamber, and I have listened to folks debate and raise concerns and problems about the legislation that is before us right now. I have heard people talking about how this is extreme, about how it is a gift to oil and gas…

I thank the gentleman from Minnesota for yielding. Mr. Speaker, $9,600, that is how much the average American household is paying today in the higher cost of living in the United States as a direct result of policies of the Biden…

Let me be clear. Big oil wants rigs to reef as the rule in every case, not because they have some newfound love of marine life or biodiversity. They want to save money.