The Methane Waste Prevention Act would reinstate the Methane Waste and Pollution Prevention Standards that were established by the BLM and EPA in 2016.

Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth was a grand challenge. Making Earth's atmosphere safe for everyone is an even grander one.

We are going further in Colorado with Senate Bill 181, which takes additional steps to minimize emission of methane and other pollutants from the oil and gas production process.

We Coloradoans place a high value on our natural environment and the health of our communities.

We don't have to choose between creating good jobs and saving our air, our water, and our way of life. We can and we must do both by growing our renewable energy sector.

I can assure you that the health risks from the various sources of energy that we have been looking at, solar and wind, of course, pale in comparison to the health risks caused by hydraulic fracturing.

I know my colleague, Representative Casten, is working on a bill similar to what Colorado has done, so we look forward to partnering on that front.

The oil and gas industry is the top producer of volatile organic compounds along the Front Range, which is a region that has failed to comply with Federal air quality standards for more than 15 years.

I just would implore you, and I certainly implore others who are watching, to read the data, to talk to people in the communities that are being impacted here in Boulder County, elsewhere across the state.

Let’s fix our school system and maybe we can fix the prison pipeline that we have.

I rise after 10 years of being in the Senate and after having endured speech after speech after speech on this floor that has claimed the Republican Party is the party of fiscal discipline. It was politics that created something during the…

But since 2001, we have cut taxes by $5 trillion. We borrowed all of that money from our children, and almost all of the benefit went to the wealthiest people in America. We spent $5.6 trillion on wars in the Middle East. We didn't pay for…

I just want to continue to focus on what is before us today, and what is before us today is dealing with the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and dealing with the budget of the United States of America, two accomplishments, both…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 519 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 519 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I would just say to my friend, Mr. Kustoff, he and I served together on Financial Services, and there is agreement here. In fact, this resolution that he described as a great stepping stone, we just took and passed the resolution 2 days…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…

The Rules Committee met last night and reported a rule, House Resolution 519, providing for consideration of H.R. 3877, which is the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, under a closed rule. The rule provides 1 hour of debate equally divided and…

No girl should have to choose between their dignity or their education, no one should have to lose their dignity just because they are incarcerated.