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I also include in the Record a letter of strong opposition to the bill by over 20 entities, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Consumer Energy Alliance, and a letter in opposition from the Laborers' International Union of North…
I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah is recognized for 5 minutes.
I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cline), our new Member in his first term here.
Once again, same thing: It is superfluous. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Rouda). The amendment was agreed to.
The administration, rightfully, took a second look at the well control and production safety system rule that was implemented by the prior administration. They didn't make a whole lot of changes. About a 17 percent change to the overall…
In the original speech the gentleman from Rhode Island said he yielded back the balance of his time. Had he not yielded in the first speech?
I am sorry. Had that actually been said after the first speech, I would have reserved. But I have yielded back. I am done with this. Unless you really want to go on, I would urge the gentleman to yield back and we will go on with the vote.
If the gentleman asks nicely. Yes. I am waiting for one more speaker coming over who may or may not be here.
I am opposed to this amendment simply because the seismic activity that we are talking about has not been updated since the 1980s. So the biggest problem we have in here is, if you are going to do it with the Atlantic, you are doing this…
To argue otherwise is ignorant at best, and willfully misleading at worst.
One of the other witnesses said that if we move this to Grand Junction it will have a profound disproportionate and negative impact on women and minority employees.
There is broad support for this move amongst a wide variety of stakeholders from diverse political persuasions.
I believe this move of Bureau of Land Management headquarters out west is long overdue and will yield tremendous results for land management.
I am from Utah's 3rd Congressional District, and I have always imagined that we were BLM's favorite district until this recent decision.
We love our BLM agents on the ground, and we are really frustrated with those 2,000 miles away.