Good morning, everyone, and welcome. The hearing of the Senate Small Business Committee will come to order.
Thank you very, very much for your testimony.
I commend you for working on this legislation and bringing it to the Senate.
I believe that what Senator Vitter is proposing in this bill falls directly in line with my values.
I come before you to offer my support for the targeted tax reform that Senator Vitter is proposing.
I firmly hope, though, that if both look to serve the other, it would benefit the whole.
I am introducing legislation to make it permanent.
The EPA's recent study finding that there had been no 'widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the U...
We can find common ground. We can make the American people safer, and we have a mark-up scheduled right afterwards.
I think there is a process that we could do this.
If we are serious about this, it may require finding new resources.
Mr. Lowenthal suggests that this is just a floor on regulations. But if the floor is all the way up to the ceiling, then...
99.3 percent of all well completions on Federal or tribal land occurred in states with hydraulic fracturing regulations.
The BLM arrogantly seeks to second guess state regulations with a one-size-fits-all final rule on hydraulic fracturing.
I would say that the BLM's final rule on hydraulic fracturing is nothing more than a frivolous regulatory exercise.
both Secretaries Jewell and Salazar of the Interior have testified that they are not aware of any harm from hydraulic fr...
Well, there are big problems in my mind, and I have seen personally identifiable, transaction-related data that have bee...
I am really concerned about the vast amounts of data that CFPB collects on all citizens related to financial transaction...
