Taking care of a resource like the Chesapeake Bay requires the buy-in of all interested stakeholders, from businesses, to fishermen, to land users and developers upstream, be actively involved and engaged.

This decision, which would fundamentally change the nature of tribal land in the United States, caught most individuals in the tribal community by surprise.

Since the Carcieri decision has been published, tribes throughout the United States are worried.

The Indian Reorganization Act was meant to encourage tribal sovereignty and self-governance in order to build sustainable self-governing tribal communities.

The Federal government's treatment of tribal nations over most of the last 200 years has often been reprehensible.

I would be honored to assist in the passage of his bill as one of his lead Republican co-sponsors.

care delayed, is care denied.

I completely agree with that.

Well, thank you very much, Madam Chairman.

We need oil, gas, coal, nuclear and renewables.

I have a bill, the Fueling America Act, and I have Democrats and Republicans on that, to accomplish what you want.

I think that is right. When it came out last week and said that we were number one in terms of reserves, that wasn't even counting shale.

One of the things that I find most offensive about the debate that has been going on.

Well, we keep hearing that this is a bill that is going to create jobs. You have made it very clear that you have had a reduction in jobs, and you have had problems in your industry.

If we were to pass something here, do you want that to preempt the EPA's regulations?

On the nuclear and the addressing natural gas, it needs to be a lot stronger.

And I think that is very significant to bring out because there is somehow, and we noticed this yesterday and the day before in these hearings, this assumption that if you are exempt, you don't have any problems.

I would say that you have two train wrecks. And just because one is going to happen, why have the other?