I would like to take a few moments to recognize Maj. Matthew ``Maddog'' Guertin who has worked in my Senate office this year as a defense fellow. Major Guertin--soon to be lieutenant colonel--is a patriot who has served our country nobly…

Again, the bill does nothing to waive NEPA requirements. It just simply speeds up the timeline. It shouldn't take an agency 90 days to notify an applicant if an application is complete or not. We need more of this clean, renewable energy…

I think we have to ask ourselves, do we want environmental growth in this country to be based on growing the bureaucracy and spending more money on permits, or do we actually want to make things? Do we want to produce energy? Do we want to…

I oppose this amendment. It would gut the bill by conditioning enactment on a determination by the Secretary of the Interior that the Bureau of Land Management and other relevant Federal permitting agencies have received adequate funding…

It is good to see my colleague, Mr. Grijalva, here in the Chamber today. Although it is good to see him presenting his amendment, I oppose the amendment. This amendment attempts to mirror the language in the Mineral Leasing Act for oil and…

Recently, in recent months, the Federal courts have taken decisions that are rolling back what is termed the ``Chevron deference.'' This dates back to the 1980s and the 1984 Supreme Court case that basically said that if an independent…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

I have heard many concerns from small businesses across Arkansas and across the country about the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN's, new detrimental beneficial ownership reporting rule. As many of you may know, this rule is…

After almost a year of being wrongfully detained by the Nigerian Government, Tigran Gambaryan is now home here in America with his family in Georgia where he should have been all along. Last February, Nigeria took Tigran into detention on…

You cannot allow partisan election officials to defy a court order.

I appreciate the gentlewoman pointing out the language on page 3 of the bill. I will point that out too because it says, ``The Secretary shall not require an operator to obtain a Federal drilling permit for geothermal exploration and…

I guess things depend on the perspective from which you look at them. They took the geothermal plant picture down that was up on the other side of the aisle, but I will point out that if that plant were to be built on Federal lands, it…

There were a lot of claims made from my friends across the aisle about what this bill does or what its intent and purpose are. I think I need to clarify some of this. First off, I heard the claim that this bill would cost billions and…

Again, we are talking about copper. So let's talk about copper a little bit. This chart shows that in 1995, we produced 2.3 million tons of copper, and China produced 0.7 million tons. That is about three times more copper that we produced…

I also note for the record the support of the following organizations: the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the National Electrical Manufacturing Association, the Zero Emission Transportation Association, the Transformer…

They're going to try to rig the rules away, you know, so it hurt us and there's been some new innovative efforts in that regard, trying to rig the rules away from it. But you did well. We won in 2020.

We need immigrants that have been vetted to do work.

I don't think any person with a straight face can tell you that Katrina was caused by global warming. But what we do know, what the evidence shows, is that there is an increase in the number and severity of bad weather events all across…