This Congress, the House Committee on Natural Resources has prioritized the work of renewing the COFAs.

What we wanted was to improve the process.

So, an administrative failure. The Inflation Reduction Act requires the Secretary to hold an offshore oil and gas lease sale within a year, before offering a single offshore wind lease.

this Administration has an all-out attack on domestic energy and on domestic mining, which is illustrated in the policies that you are putting forth and which American consumers are paying the price for.

This Administration hides behind the rhetoric of limited demand for leases or limited interest to develop these resources.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for you and the work that you and your colleagues do across the country.

Get this done.

What environmental impacts are being observed as a result of illegal immigration through Forest Service lands?

BOEM's policy is entirely at odds with the OCS Lands Act, the public interest, and common sense.

We maintain our demand that, consistent with the spirit and letter of the OCS Lands Act, that this Administration acknowledge that additional leasing is necessary in Alaska and other OCS regions in order to meet our national energy needs.

The decision makers in the Biden administration have proposed the fewest opportunities to extract the cleanest barrels of oil on Earth.

So indeed, it makes me wonder how temporary are these thoughts of housing people in these places, and what term would that look like, then what do you do at the end of that term.

We will vote on the Floor some time. I don't have any----

I have seen the sites where cartels are operating and the smuggling operations.

It is not just negligence, it is a calculated move that strikes at the heart of American competitiveness.

I do want to again thank the witnesses for your valuable testimony and for the time that you spent here today.

It is overwhelming to have these cartels. California, of course, being a border state, it is not going to slow down very much.

The caches of illegal weapons that have been found and how they are a threat to local residents just trying to live a good life.