This Congress, the House Committee on Natural Resources has prioritized the work of renewing the COFAs.

when you are this deep in the hole, you better consider every available option on the table or else you are never going to fix the problem.

We have the opportunity to build on the success of our alliances and stand up together against the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

The intent behind this is to ensure greater engagement from these agencies and the U.S. Government in carrying out the COFA agreements.

the challenge with Congress is that we create commissions and we create task forces and we look at problem sets, and we develop potential solutions, and then there is no real mechanism to give them the force of law

I really believe that this is a good resolution. This is actually a good policy for the United States in making a safe presence of the United States in the Pacific area.

The decision makers in the Biden administration have proposed the fewest opportunities to extract the cleanest barrels of oil on Earth.

I just want to respond briefly to my friend from Vermont, and he is my friend from Vermont. I don't mean that in the way that Senators usually say that when they say ``friend from another State'' but they are not actually friends and they…

It is overwhelming to have these cartels. California, of course, being a border state, it is not going to slow down very much.

10 days ago, as Israeli families celebrated the Sabbath and the Jewish holiday, Iran's terrorist Hamas launched a barbaric surprise attack against Israel, killing at least 1,400 Israelis and 30 Americans. Hamas fired thousands of rockets…

It is not just negligence, it is a calculated move that strikes at the heart of American competitiveness.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for you and the work that you and your colleagues do across the country.

We will vote on the Floor some time. I don't have any----

this Administration has an all-out attack on domestic energy and on domestic mining, which is illustrated in the policies that you are putting forth and which American consumers are paying the price for.

BOEM's policy is entirely at odds with the OCS Lands Act, the public interest, and common sense.

What environmental impacts are being observed as a result of illegal immigration through Forest Service lands?

I do want to again thank the witnesses for your valuable testimony and for the time that you spent here today.

We maintain our demand that, consistent with the spirit and letter of the OCS Lands Act, that this Administration acknowledge that additional leasing is necessary in Alaska and other OCS regions in order to meet our national energy needs.