For the record, this hearing is occurring at the request of the Democrat Minority, who exercised their rights under the ...
If the companies officially cited for the oil spill had outright refused to provide witnesses, testimony or answers to t...
I was very, very frustrated that we had to postpone this for three weeks.
The time it takes to get approval for permits and exploration plans is much longer today.
Permitting activity in the Gulf has dramatically declined under the Obama Administration and has operated at lows that e...
Perhaps we could work together and dig into this a little bit more and maybe from a document standpoint, certainly to ge...
We seem to have a grand agreement here.
The Obama Administration's inability, or refusal, to issue permits in a timely and efficient manner after the official m...
if I had my way, every time we have a hearing here and have a member of the Administration here I would like to have the...
Like many, if not most, of our members here, I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would hav...
The U.S. military is the modern era's pillar of American strength and values.
I would strongly urge this Congress to pass appropriations bills so that we can fund our Government in a responsible and...
If we go to sequestration, every line item in the defense budget, and frankly, every line item in all discretionary spen...
I agree with the chairman, that the cuts that we are facing in our Department of Defense budget do place national securi...
Unless you want to cut entitlements by somewhere around a third, you have got to put revenue on the table.
We need to make decisions. We need to put everything on the table and make a comprehensive decision for how to get the d...
It is imperative that we focus our fiscal restraint on the driver of the debt instead of the protector of our prosperity...
