Over the past 60 years, the United States has seen a steady decline in hurricane landfalls.

By global standards, these industries are leaders for operations conducted in the cleanest and safest manner.

I am here to talk about a few projects that are both in my district but also have a very large impact on America's national security and energy security infrastructure.

I will not criticize my colleague from New York for her enthusiasm and her creativity regarding the Green New Deal. I shall just suggest that it would be very bad legislation and it would impact Americans we are sworn to serve.

Investment in infrastructure is a realistic response to the impact of natural events.

The oil and gas industry has invested proactively.

It is our responsibility to address these challenges within the parameters of our constitution, and based upon a sober interpretation of the science as it is available to us.

By what measure would you advise us to move forward with reason and seeking truth within the parameters of our constitutional authority?

Thank you, Chairwoman, Ranking Member Simpson. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here.

I thank the gentleman. I am encouraged by the conversations that both I have been in as well as the conversations that I am aware are going on on your side as well, because this is a bipartisan win for the country. This agreement would…

If I could further inquire, S. 1 has not been referred to committee. Is there a plan to refer the bill to committee and, ultimately, to allow it to move through the process, as it has been incredibly bipartisan but also incredibly timely…

I look forward to a robust debate on the unaptly titled bill, ``Save the Internet.'' I think a lot of people shiver at the thought of the Federal Government saving us from the internet. The title II regulation that would be imposed would…

I will be happy to yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), my friend, the majority leader of the House for the purpose of inquiring about the week to come.

That is correct. And I know those pieces of legislation are just resolutions, not actual policy. And, ultimately, if we are going to make the stand, it has to be legislation with teeth, with actual authorizing language and with the ability…

Hopefully, we can get a bipartisan agreement on what those levels need to be to properly fund our defense, to properly do the other things the government should do and limit the ways it can possibly be carried out, and then, ultimately, to…

I appreciate the gentleman's candor. We will continue to pursue other tools that we have available as the growing momentum around the country builds, as people saw what happened in New York with a law ushered in that allows babies to be…

I thank the gentleman from Maryland, and I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

I thank the gentleman. It was heavily debated in the Energy and Commerce Committee, as it should be, and I am sure it will be heavily debated on the floor. A number of these other issues that the gentleman mentioned, you know, we litigated…