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I think it is the responsibility of the CFPB to stop collecting this data or at least tell the American public why this is being collected.

Many examples demonstrate how the Interior Department has been dead wrong in their so-called 'management' of Federal lands.

While production in the Gulf has remained relatively stagnant over the past several years, skyrocketing oil and natural gas production on state and private lands has propelled the United States to surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia to become…

Energy production in the Gulf of Mexico is an energy lifeline for our Nation--today providing 17 percent of our domestic crude and 5 percent of our natural gas.

The bottom line is we could be doing better, we should be doing better, and this Nation must have us do better.

Somebody made a decision to say we're not doing that anymore.

We are not only the Oversight Committee, we're also the Government Reform Committee.

We want to find a way to help make these people whole.

I think that has been exemplified here over the last 2 1/2 hours through this hearing.

I would really challenge you both please to come up with something, I don't know if it's a letter...

One of the great frustrations here is that people make mistakes. I get that. But this is not a simple mistake.

It's just unacceptable to us. It's just mind-boggling that there would knowingly and willingly cut their pay.

There has to be a legal, lawful way to get here.

I think it's wrong. And I think people on both sides of this aisle think it's wrong.

It's amazing that you get down there and see that there's no plan and no--other than, 'Hey, we're going to continue to look at it.'

The consulate general and his facilities and his ability or her ability to conduct work on behalf of the United States is pivotal.

The reason that we are going to continue to focus on this is every single thing we've done since the time I was elected... has gone up in costs.

Every time we spend dollars here we're pulling money out of American people's pockets to give it to somebody else.