Like many in North Dakota, I am concerned the Obama administration is being selective in determining which energy producers are investigated or prosecuted.

I spent nearly 10 years as an energy regulator in North Dakota. I oversaw 1,500 megawatts of new wind development.

I find it quite offensive, the terminology that we 'dragged a woman in here last year.'

Frankly, I don't find these investigations for truth to be 'mindless,' as depicted by the Ranking Member.

Except that, according to the judge's ruling, 'taken' is not as easily described, or as defined as perhaps it once was.

On the 26th of March, the Ninth Circuit upheld the roadless rule exemption for the Tongass.

I wish to take a moment to commend the Senator from Minnesota on her remarks. She expressed what we feel very strongly in this body. I wish to express both my agreement with her comments as well as the importance of moving this…

If we are going to do what you just described, this needs significant involvement and input from the agricultural community.

it is not a rule that is achievable in terms of meeting the CO2 emission requirements with a natural gas equivalency as you have proposed it.

I have had serious concerns about new Federal regulations of hydraulic fracturing on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.

I introduced the Empower States Act, allowing States and tribes the ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing on Federal lands.

today I am introducing the Advanced Clean Coal Technology for Our Nation (ACCTION) Act. This bill seeks to remedy one of the main impediments to the development of advanced clean coal technologies, in particular carbon capture and…

How are you going to assure us that private property rights are going to be protected?

Let me switch for just a minute to the subject that you were in our State to work on, the CO2 rules.

We need to work on that as a whole, and we need to get the language correct so that you are certain that we are doing the right thing here.

the only way that CCS is going to be developed is if it becomes commercially viable, so we have got to get it to that point.

I come to the Senate floor today to address the legislation that we are considering, legislation that will provide economic and diplomatic sanctions to deter Russian aggression and also provide financial assistance in the form of a loan…

Our farmers are very concerned about this. I want to emphasize that.