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There will always be risks; however, no matter how far we have come, there are some areas that are too sensitive to risk to oil and gas development.

As many of you recognized, today is the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez, a terrible accident that had long-term and far-reaching impacts on our environment.

Today's hearing will explore that last point in greater detail.

Good morning, everyone. The joint hearing by the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans, and Wildlife, and the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will come to order.

I can't imagine that we would do anything else but to go forward and take the responsibility upon ourselves.

Support for the enactment of the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act continues to grow, and I hope that the Senate will pass the bill this year.

We are pleased to receive your testimony, and you are recognized for 5 minutes.

I respectfully request and appeal to the Committee to include in its proposed budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2010 sufficient budgetary headroom to allow for Congress to pass legislation implementing the recommendations of the Guam War…

We have to share it.

We need specific, practical, and constructive recommendations and priorities.

The dynamic nature of our time suggests the need for a new conservation paradigm.

We begin the 111th Congress during a period of great uncertainty for our Nation.

I do know, Secretary Penn, and I will say for the record, that you have made every effort to work closely with our elected leaders in the legislature, and I thank you.

So the 2 billion acres that you're referring to does exclude national parks and all of the military bases?

In closing, I want to say, as Mr. Welch stated, ANWR, everybody keeps talking about ANWR. But if you opened ANWR today, you would not get any energy production tomorrow. You wouldn't get any for a decade or more. Whereas right now, the oil…

I find it interesting that a bill that was approved by the Natural Resources Committee by unanimous consent is suddenly objectionable to the minority. But I urge Members to support it.

H.R. 2649, as amended, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to participate in the Lake Hodges Surface Water Improvement and Reclamation Project. This project would pretreat 13,000 acre-feet of…

Senate Joint Resolution 17 directs the United States to initiate international discussions and take necessary steps with other nations to negotiate an agreement to manage migratory and transboundary fish stocks in the Arctic Ocean. It is…