the only body that can actually make cuts is Congress when it passes those 12 appropriations bills, right?
No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and The Congress shall have the power to lay and...
the President can't unilaterally make cuts, he can propose cuts, right?
Right here in Congress is where the rubber hits the road.
It seems to me the point of this hearing was to bring a whole bunch of people in to testify as to their political beliefs about what the Pre...
opening statement
What we've seen from EPA, what we've seen from the other agencies within the Federal Government has been policy and it's going to trample, w...
Can a state even give an adequate response in five or ten days? I find that when I send something to a state, or even worse, maybe a Federal...
We are hopeful, now that OSM has retained a new contractor and pressed the pause button on the EIS process, that it will comply with its obl...
Some have said, and I happen to share this concern, so I could be saying this just as well as anyone else out there, that the Obama Administ...
I would like to reaffirm my belief that the United States is a nation of excellence.
I look forward to hearing from all of our witnesses.
The 2008 stream buffer zone rule employed science to guide public policy.
The rewritten stream buffer zone rule will result in the direct loss of over 7,000 jobs nationwide.
Well, I find that really ironic because SMCRA is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Surface mining control, so ostensibly, it's...
Science should be employed as a tool to guide public policy.
Increasing responsible access to these resources will allow us to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy.
The American people deserve answers. What went wrong? What could have been done?
