"With fewer opportunities to lease in U.S. waters, investment will flow overseas and hostile nations will have greater influence over global energy markets."
"BOEM's plan assumes a 400 percent increase in transmission capacity over the next 30 years."
"The Biden administration's agenda of limiting oil and gas lease sales at all cost sets a deeply troubling precedent for American offshore access."
"This monumental mis-step that is nearly 2 years late marks an unprecedented shift in offshore policies."
"So, given that Lease Sale 261 was held on December 20, 2023, under the Inflation Reduction Act, your agency can offer offshore wind leases only until December 2024 without another oil and gas sale."
"Thank you for the opportunity to testify during the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Hearing."
"So, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to explain some basic economics in a free-market capital system that gets manipulated by cartels and countries that join together to set oil prices when we..."
"It seems clear that the Park Service is failing to keep the three legs of the stool in balance."
"It is clear that we need to face the reality that the Park Service is falling short of this goal."
"I was stunned to find out that the Park Service is inflating its backlog by 35 percent, or roughly $3.7 billion, with absolutely no justification."
"It seems clear that the Park Service never really understood the real scope of the problem."
"I believe everybody in this room shares a common goal. We all want to improve our parks and leave them in better condition than how we found them."
"I am also deeply concerned with findings that the National Park Service is not adequately monitoring completed deferred maintenance projects, particularly projects that immediately affect the health, ..."
"Clinton likes them young."
"I think this is her last WRDA, so, we need to make it a good one."
"It is just raising that limit to be able to do purchases without competitively bidding."
"The bottom line is, I asked for a report just in the Little Rock and Tulsa Districts over a 2-year timeframe. These two provisions cost $18 million."
"At its core, the right-to-work movement is deeply racist."
