Your own study shows that we are already doing that, and now you are adding additional regulation.

Because again, there is different ideas, in terms of, if you are really tourism focused in some of those groups they want a certain approach, and then our grazers need another approach.

Too much spending here in D.C. is a big part of the problem.

Do you agree with Energy Secretary Granholm's call on oil and gas companies to increase production to help minimize harm to American families?

You need to keep that in mind.

U.S. oil production is down nearly a million barrels a day since the current Administration took office.

Recently the Congress voted on a bipartisan basis to overturn the WOTUS Rule put forward by the Biden administration.

I do prefer States' authority, of course. I think the Supreme Court does as well.

Thanks, Chief, appreciate it very much. And again, Thank to the Chairman and Ranking Member.

Gas prices are 41 percent higher nationally than when the President, the current President, took office.

Do you think it is better for our country to get oil and gas from Federal lands in this country with our environmental standards, or is it better to get it from places like Venezuela, Russia, Middle East, and other places with vastly…

We are already capturing millions of tons of CO2, but we need help and regulatory certainty in order to keep doing that, and do more of it.

And you are telling me that you think those actions helped increase supply, when we are down a million barrels a day in production, domestic production?

Your own study shows that we are already doing that, and now you are adding additional regulation.

will you commit to complying with the court's ruling and within two weeks provide a schedule of 2023 lease sales for North Dakota on BLM land?

We are very concerned about protecting private property rights.

So, you think by restricting access, by slowing down permits, and by increasing royalty rates, that increases supply?

The Biden administration is calling the shots that were started during the Obama administration's war on coal.