That's why I'm committed to passing the FAIR Act.

An energy secure and independent North America is something worth fighting for, working for and working across parties lines to achieve.

More offshore energy exploration and production means more high paying jobs for hard working families.

Allowing coastal States to share in the same or an equitable percentage... would be fair.

I will do the same as chair.

Before this law was passed, as everyone knows, Gulf Coast States played host to energy production offshore and our States, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama, that were production host States, received virtually no share of the…

I'm confident that this committee can use it in a way to expand this industry both onshore and offshore, reduce unnecessary and redundant regulations that cost time, money and jobs, build on the revenue sharing partnership that was…

I am so proud to chair this committee on behalf of the people of Louisiana.

It means achieving energy security for the United States, something that has bedeviled the Members of Congress and Presidents for decades.

I'm a strong supporter of the Jones Act.

Contrary to this situation and great irritation to me and to others, the Federal Government shared 50 percent of those same revenues on Federal lands in interior States.

However, it took 152 years and 32 more presidents. When Harry Truman then claimed the entire Outer Continental Shelf and the resources beneath it for the people of the United States this expanded our country's territory by 70 percent.

When the people of Louisiana hold this gavel good things happen, in my view, for the industry.

I introduced with Senator Wyden back in January.

This is the water for energy that we cannot do without.

I also welcome the report that DOE released just last week.

The law requires that I turn them over to HHS, sir.

who would have more of an invested interest in conservation than hunters themselves; the same for fishermen.